The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: A celebration of MENA playwrights!

Golden Thread Productions, The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University, and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland host the launch of The Digital Guide to Theatre of the Middle East: 21st Century Volume (DGTOME) the first and only searchable database in the field of MENA Theatre created by dramaturg and researcher Marjan Moosavi.

The launch will commence with a presentation about DGTOME by Marjan Moosavi followed by a roundtable discussion with Arts Professor Catherine Coray, playwright Adam El Sayegh, and stage director Pirronne Yousefzadeh, moderated by Sahar Assaf, Golden Thread’s Executive Artistic Director and Samer Al Saber, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University.

The launch is part of Golden Thread’s online program: “No Summary: Conversations with Artists who Don’t fit in a Box.”