Abdelrahman's  play How Beautiful We Are! is an imitation of J.B. Priestley's play An Inspector Calls. The form of the play How Beautiful We Are! perfectly suited the dramatic purpose of the author, as he could use a traditional Arab soothsayer as the equivalent of Priestley's police inspector. As an adaptation, Abdelrahman's How Beautiful We Are! is dissimilar in the setting and social class, but very similar in the severe moral judgment  as it  ends up passing on the characters. The two plays share the same structure, they differ in the content as a result of their difference in the values, morals, and attitudes they reflect.
So Abdelrahman adapted Priestley's play, transposing it to be suitable for the Arab culture.