sentences:  In 1982, and in the aftermath of the Israeli siege and invasion of Beirut, he lived through a period of shock, ceasing to write for a decade.Back to writing in early nineties, Wannous delivered to Arabic theater a series of plays no less political than their predecessors, starting with "The Rape" (1990), a play about the Arab-Israeli conflict.Since then, he has written "Fragments from History" (1994), "Rituals of Signs and Transformations" (1994), "Miserable Dreams" (1995), "A Day of Our Time" (1995), and finally "Mirage Epic" (1996).