...Amahl Raphaël Khouri © 2020 by Amahl Raphaël Khouri 2020 127 Arti s t s Journal Amahl Raphaël Khouri Queer and Trans Arabs Onstage I. Beginnings I remember the desktop computer was very old, very big, and very beige. I was typing a short bit of dialogue in Microsoft Word, on Windows 2000...

... Shteren. 03-Ezraty 5/21/01 3:20 PM Page 35 S TAGING RECONCILIATION The Arab-Hebrew Theater of Jaffa Makes a Model Igal Ezraty, Interviewed by Alisa Solomon In March 2000, the Arab-Hebrew Theater of Jaffa...

... as a vehicle to protest cept of Arab unity, or focusing on a repeated Western contact. against the government and the British small local following and gaining popu- More recently, Islam has begun to during the last years of the 19th cen- larity in their own countries. Few con- conspire...

...," she smiled up at the eunuch's eyes. Her smile was archaic, her cunt modern & curved so fleshly, her feet squared, the toes like pinkish stone 98 "arabs confront byzantium" dipped in & out like tongues. The Queen of Greece commanded that the lithe eu- nuch (twas...

... begs for money. to MacDonald’s. MESSENGER: Telegram for Mr. Said Bum. Only thing Salim can say in NADIA: MacDonald’s? You ate Jewish Razzle. (Nadia takes it, signs, Arabic : “Gimme ten dollars”. food? messenger...

...Andrew Steggall Andrew Steggall, Iraq, 2005. Courtesy of Georgia Oetker Andrew Steggall Artist ’s Journal Directing Stravinsky’s  The Soldier’s Tale I’m afraid I had, since I was a boy, been rather suspicious of foreigners, especially dark ones. And Arabs, despite...

... Theater September 2003 The fifteenth Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) took over virtually every theater in Cairo from September 1 to 11, 2003. CIFET attracts sev- enty-three participants from forty-three countries, including sixteen Arab countries. Though largely...

... Theater September 2003 The fifteenth Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater (CIFET) took over virtually every theater in Cairo from September 1 to 11, 2003. CIFET attracts sev- enty-three participants from forty-three countries, including sixteen Arab countries. Though largely...

..., and fails to invest 6, in the middle of a military procession at the hand of her characters with a female awareness free of male influ- his soldiers. ence. Others fault her portrayal of Alia in Al-Insan as overly naive. But Alia (whose name means “high” in Arabic) offers Despite erosion of individual...

... the station, they accused me of living in an Arab house and of offering them coffee in dirty glasses. Yet, they did not leave. One night, when I...

... exclusively to stage work exploring the perspectives of Americans from Middle Eastern backgrounds — ­was unveiled in June 2010. With a name playing on Arabic and Farsi words for light, the New York – based organization’s mission will be “to illuminate these diverse viewpoints to foster greater...

... exclusively to stage work exploring the perspectives of Americans from Middle Eastern backgrounds — ­was unveiled in June 2010. With a name playing on Arabic and Farsi words for light, the New York – based organization’s mission will be “to illuminate these diverse viewpoints to foster greater...

... exclusively to stage work exploring the perspectives of Americans from Middle Eastern backgrounds — ­was unveiled in June 2010. With a name playing on Arabic and Farsi words for light, the New York – based organization’s mission will be “to illuminate these diverse viewpoints to foster greater...

... of knowledge. So the audience for the earliest Palestine Hosting Society events, performances, dinners were other Palestinians? Yes. And even now, whenever there is a table happening here, I make sure that it s in Arabic because I want to target Palestinian audiences. Because the food research and the dishes I...

..., a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction. Roland Barthes, A Lover s Discourse: Fragments Night is a performance that draws inspiration from the prolific themes of love and romance in classical Arabic poetry, recounting stories of lovers and their cruel separa...

...-­Western countries and in programs centered on specific countries and regions on the part of the big international festivals of the West- ern hemisphere (from the mid-­1990s onward China is often a focal point; from 2010 onward the Arab Spring). Nevertheless, there has been little discussion as yet...

... . AND . . . . IT'S TAKE SIXTEEN '53 JUNE JEW GIRL. HEY YOU. ARAB HAIR. BOOGIE WOOGIE IN YOUR OTHER FROM THE TEASER. YOU ARMENIAN BELLY . HEY HEY EYE . CAN'T SEE BOTH YOUR EYES...

..., glamorous TV personalities, or some turned out that both the driver and in each scene, is the magic equation, the dazzling princess of the ice? They all passenger were Arabs and soon began alchemical formula that transforms an- seemed too easy. I wanted something or speaking Arabic together...

... fifty members) was highly cosmopolitan: it included American mother’s ring and bought a one-way ticket to Paris, where Indians, Japanese, Russians, Frenchmen, Arabs, Greeks, Hun- she knew he was living. Overcoming seemingly insur- garians, Italians, Germans, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, Chinese...

..., Krakow Teatr Kalambur, Wroclaw United Arab Republic Marionnette Theatre of Cairo Roumania Marionette Theatre of Constant Venezuela Groupe...