Samer Al-Saber is an Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University. He is affiliated with the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. His recent scholarship focuses on Palestinian theatre. His work appeared in Theatre Research International, Alt.Theatre, Performance Paradigm, Critical Survey, Theatre Survey, Jadaliyya, Counterpunch, This Week In Palestine, and various edited volumes, such as Palgrave’s Performing For Survival, Edinburgh Press’ Being Palestinian, and the Freedom Theatre’s recently published Performing Cultural Resistance in Palestine. He is the co-editor of the anthology Stories Under Occupation and Other Plays from Palestine (Seagull Press/University of Chicago Press) and the edited collection of the plays of Jackie Lubeck, Youth Plays from Gaza (Bloomsbury Press). Samer Al-Saber is currently finishing his manuscript Permission To Perform. In the academic year 2022/23 he is an affiliated EUME Fellow.