“It is very dangerous what I’m going to say: Taha’s poetry about the Palestinian catastrophe lasts much more than Darwish’s poetry.”
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Hannah Khalil’s ‘Scenes from 68* Years’ Shortlisted for James Tait Black Prize for Drama
The winner’s set to be announced at a ceremony in Edinburgh on August 21.
Disappearing Theatre: A Play About Palestinians in London, a Scottish Novel Adapted in Cairo
“This small team have put a lot of time and effort into making an innovative piece of drama, which may never be shown to the public in Egypt.”
‘The Yemeni Public Loves Writing Laced with Irony and Sarcasm’: On Yemeni Literary and Performing Arts
“Facebook has broken the barrier that distance once put in our way. And a writer in the diaspora may have more of a following in Yemen than a writer who lives here. Plus the freedom that writers can enjoy in exile has a positive impact on Yemeni literature as a whole.”
The Meanings of a Quadrilingual ‘Glass Menagerie’ in Egypt
“Paul Spera, dressed in a suit and red tie, looking as much like Donald Trump as it is possible to do for someone who has not spent 70 years sucking the souls of the less fortunate, blasts onto the stage.”
Two Palestinian Plays Coming to D.C. Next Month
After D.C., Taha will be staged in London, at the Young Vic’s Maria studio, from July 5 to 15.
The Drama of Protest and ‘Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution’
The spark for the ten-play collection was Ibrahim El-Husseini′s Comedy of Sorrows, a work that Maggor helped translate and stage in 2012. Comedy of Sorrows, part of the first wave of post-2011 plays, was brought into English not for a general audience, but for an academic conference at Harvard University entitled “Women Making Democracy”.
Friday Finds: Hassan Blasim on Open Borders, Activist Theatre
“My role? For years I would receive emails, hate mail from the Arab world. Now I get hate mail from Finns! Because I speak about racism, about refugees.”
Friday Finds: ‘The First Yemeni Play Translated Into English’
“What you need to understand is that truth is directly connected to our wallets. And since your wallet is empty, and mine is full, that means the truth isn’t in your wallet. It’s in mine.”
Shubbak Festival Announces Projects Chosen for ‘Between Two Shores,’ Dates Set for July 2017
“‘Personal Empathy Machine’ is an original performance work by Amal Omran, Hatem Hadawe and Kathryn Hamilton about Syrian prisons, Virtual Reality and the limits of empathy.”
How to Support Arab-American Theater in the Heart of the Midwest
“I feel very vulnerable as a teacher. Many of my fears around that came out in my play ZAFIRA. She was a teacher who ended up in the ‘Arab and Muslim Internment Camps.'”
New Palestinian-Syrian Play ‘Desert of Light’ Premieres This Month at Cornell
“Maggor added over email that Hadyar’s U.S. visa had been approved, so the playwright will be joining the final week of rehearsals as well as the production. “
