Writings

In March of 2017, IETM—international network for contemporary performing arts, Brussels—published “Contemporary Performing Arts in Lebanon: an overview” by Emmanuel Haddad, a sweeping look at the art making, and the politics of art making, in Lebanon. Haddad notes, “For the Lebanese establishment, culture, as the poet Nazem al-Sayed wrote in 2008, is just a more… Read more »

Tania El Khoury’s work is incomplete without you. Unlike more conventional theatre and performance, her live art work* comes alive through audience interaction. In Stories of Refuge, audience members recline on bunk beds, evoking an image of prisons and refugee camps; in Gardens Speak, they listen to accounts of the lives and the last moments of Syrian martyrs, becoming recumbent inhabitants of a graveyard themselves.