A master's thesis in the College of Fine Arts at Basra University examined despotism in contemporary Arab theater literature.

The letter presented by the researcher Rawa Muhammad Khaled included the authoritarian formulas that the playwright proposed in contemporary Arab theater literature.

The research aims to discover the ideological, psychological and social formulas through which despotism is based in contemporary Arab theater literature.

The researcher came up with indications ... Political despotism is the seizure of power and its use of private interests. Disguised despotism is the encapsulation of authoritarian natures with a false religious and moral tinge.

Violent despotism manifests itself in the form of brutality, bloodshed, and the lack of hearing the voice of the other. Sectarian tyranny is a despotism that achieves its interests through the ideology of discrimination and ethnic and sectarian tendencies.