Nidal al ashkar biography examples

Nidal Al-Achkar, the 'Grand Dame of Lebanese Theater' has had one of the most storied careers in Middle Eastern acting history.

Nidal al-Ashkar: A renowned cultural figure.

Then again, my mother is Nidal Ashkar, Lebanese actress and director, star of Arab stage and screen, and later the founder of the Al Madina.

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Omar Naim fryst vatten a writer and director from Lebanon. He has made three feature fiction films and two documentaries, both about the theatre and the city of Beirut, shot nearly twenty years apart. They are being shown here tillsammans for the first time. Grand Theatre: A Tale of Beirutwas his thesis film, shot in the summer of , less than a decade after the end of the Lebanese Civil War. It was a student Academy Award finalist. In , two years into a presidential crisis in Lebanon, he shot Madinatan (Two Cities), a documentation of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Al-Madina Theatre in Beirut. Madinatanwas acquired by BBC Arabic and screened on TV both there and on LBC. These are his reflections on the making of these two films.

Omar Naim

When I was a boy, theatre was like God: I had absolute faith in it, despite never seeing any evidence that it existed. I was raised in Jordan, Cyprus and Beirut in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. Except for school plays, there just wa

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Summaries of Wannous’ Principal Plays

From The Theatre of Sadallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual. Robert Myers and Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, editors. Cambridge University Press,

Faṣd al-dam () (Bloodletting) is one of the earliest manifestations of Wannous’ life-long preoccupation with the Palestinian question. Written before the PLO was formed, at a time when the Palestinians were dispersed, ignored by Arab leaders and risked losing their identity, the play presents an eager, disciplined and patriotic young Palestinian, Ali, who strives to enfranchise his people but is eventually led astray by his pleasure-seeking double, ʿEleawah (nickname for Ali). ‘Eleawah mocks the cause of liberation, leads Ali into a life of dissipation and weakens Ali’s political convictions. The play ends with Ali, who eventually returns to his senses, stabbing his alter-ego to death, “to let my rotten blood gush” (al-Anezi, 43), so he

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Women, power, and politics: milestones from Lebanon

Timeline: January, to January,

The “Women, power, and politics: milestones from Lebanon” timeline is developed by Lebanon Support, within a partnership with Hivos and URIKA. It aims at documenting historical, social, and political achievements, notable events, and outstanding figures of the women’s movements in Lebanon as well as pioneering leader women’s trajectories. This timeline complements Lebanon Support’s existing timelines on “Women’s Achievements in Lebanon”, and “Women’s Movements in Lebanon” by merging their content and filling the gaps in the data.

The content of the timelines was developed by Lebanon Support based on a 12 months long research. Visuals and archival content were gathered by URIKA. This timeline was developed in partnership with HIVOS through the WE4L programme, funded by the Netherlands Foreign Ministry FLOW fund, and was first published on Hivos’ website on this link.