Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword: Hope Arising from Despair by Elias Khoury
1. Introduction
Eyad Houssami
2. Refugees on the Syrian Stage: Soirée for the 5th of June by Edward Ziter
3. Saadallah Wannous in Palestine: On and Offstage Performances and Pedagogies by Rania Jawad
4. Performance through the Egyptian Revolution: Stories from Tahrir by Dalia Basiouny
5. Three Egyptian Plays in the Wake of the January Revolution by Samia Habib
6. Staging a Protest: Socio-Political Critique in Contemporary Yemeni Theatre by Katherine Hennessey
7. The Legacy of Saadallah Wannous and Soirée for the 5th of June amidst the Arab Revolts by Asaad Al-Saleh
8. Emerging Playwrights in Syria by Meisoun Ali
9. Practicing Theatre and Playwriting in Damascus by Abdullah Al Kafri
10. 12 Angry Lebanese in Roumieh Prison by Zeina Daccache
11. What has Slipped Away is So Far, and What is Yet to Come So Close by Rabih Mroué
12. Shakespeare, Global Debris, and International Political Theatre by Sulayman Al Bassam
13. The Things I am Afraid to Tell You: Performing Palestine in Diaspora by Joseph Shahadi
14. Doomed by “Dialogue,” Saved by Curiosity? Post-9/11 Arab Performances under American Eyes by Margaret Litvin
15. Remembering Saadallah Wannous by Jawad Al Asadi
Contributor Biographies

About the Author

Eyad Houssami makes and writes about theatre. He studied theatre at Yale University and currently lives in Beirut. He is the author of the play Mama Butterfly.

Elias Khoury is a Lebanese writer and public intellectual. He is the author of plays, film scripts, stories, and critical essays, and his twelve novels include Little Mountain, Gate of the Sun, As Though She Were Sleeping and Sinalkol.

Reviews

'This is the power of theatre giving voice to the voiceless. Welcome and necessary ... highly recommended'
*K.J. Wetmore, Jr., CHOICE*