Theatre is the Thing: TMR’s Best-Books List
Editors at The Markaz Review recommend twelve titles published over a 20-year period presenting a broad range of Middle Eastern plays.
Editors at The Markaz Review recommend twelve titles published over a 20-year period presenting a broad range of Middle Eastern plays.
An original short play by playwright and theatre maker Mona Mansour: "a short, dark confession in a time of catastrophe."
Al Jadid editor Elie Chalala finds that Lebanese intellectuals’ defense of expat director Wadji Mouawad contrasts with state chokehold on freedom of expression.
A play about the French Revolution highlights the experiences of Syrian actors and theatre makers as artists in exile.
Lameece Issaq presents a short play borrowing a popular fantasy world.
Omar Naim set out to create a film about the Lebanese theatre scene where stage honesty clashes with street deceit.
Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world to European audiences.
Georgina Van Welie, co-founder of Sabab theatre, shares her perspective on the "Arab" Shakespeare Trilogy for the first time
"Prisoner of Love" acknowledges the limitations of language in capturing the reality of the Palestinian revolution, writes Saleem Haddad.
An interview with an actress performing on stage in Iran without a hijab and who is no longer taking on roles that require official approval.
Hara TV3 harnessed interactive theatre and comedy to address gender-based violence and FGM in Egypt writes its founder Nada Sabet.
Continuously displaced Palestinians redefine "home" in Osama Kahlout’s surprising photographs from the war on Gaza.
An entire family is preoccupied with its history and questions of national identity, confounded by France’s rejection of the pieds-noirs.
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A major exhibition at Mimosa House aims to address pressing and unresolved issues faced by women, queer, and trans people across the world.