Hossam Madhoun

Hossam Madhoun is the co-founder of Gaza’s Theatre for Everybody. The war in Gaza has made productions impossible. As project coordinator for the local nonprofit Ma’an Development Agency in Rafah, Madhoun and the theater’s co-founder Jamal Al Rozzi now dedicate their energies to therapy programs for traumatized children. Theatre for Everybody has been in creative partnership with Az Theatre in London since 2009. In Messages from Gaza Now, Hossam Madhoun has written about his wife Abeer, his daughter Salma and his invalid mother and their experiences and that of relations and friends during the war. These near daily accounts have been collected and edited by theater director Jonathan Chadwick and actress Ruth Lass, who recently said in an interview, “Hossam’s writing is amazing, he is so open and articulate, vulnerable and poetic in the way that he writes which is something that should be shared with other people. You will not come across anything like this in the mainstream media.” A staged reading of The Messages from Gaza Now #3, directed by Chadwick, has been turned into a film by Jonathan Bloom, Nicholas Seaton, and Maysoon Pachachi.