Prof. Yousef Abu Amrieh gave online talks on the Arab Hamlet tradition at University of Carthage (Tunisia), New Bulgarian University, and the University of Chicago. The talk, titled “Arab Hamlet at Home and in Diaspora," has focused on how Arab writers, whether inside the Arab World or outside it, draw on Shakespeare's Hamlet for thematic and aesthetic purposes. The talk at University of Carthage on 14/4/2025 was a drama masterclass for students in MA in Cross-Cultural Studies. Moreover, the talk at the New Bulgarian University on 25/4/2025 was part of “Tracing Shakespeare International Festival" which was held between 23 and 25/4/2025. Prof. Abu Amrieh's talk at the University of Chicago on 22/4/2025 was at a PhD class on adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Focusing on the differences between the concepts of adaptations & appropriations, Prof. Abu Amrieh has outlined how the two sets of writers differ in the way they approach Shakespeare's tragedy and cast it in contemporary sociopolitical spaces. The talk, in which Prof. Abu Amrieh has focused on Arab British novelist Jamal Mahjoub's The Fugitives as an appropriation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, instigated a discussion on how Arab writers in diaspora draw on their Arab cultural heritages and their experiences in the West to offer nuanced interpretations of Shakespeare's plays.