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Podcast
How Many SWANA Performance Artists Can We Talk About in One Episode?
by Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson
17 December 2024
Essay
Telling Stories
An Arab/Arab American Theatre Collaboration
by Catherine Coray
20 May 2018
Essay
Does Laughter Have a Place Here?
by Aysan Celik
19 March 2018
A promotional graphic for Kunafa and Shay.
Podcast
17 December 2024

There are so many cool Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) performance artists out there! Since this performance art season only had ten episodes to talk to artists directly, this last episode wraps up the season and goes through a whole bunch of other contemporary artists that hosts Marina Johnson and Nabra Nelson are excited about.

Essay

An Arab/Arab American Theatre Collaboration

20 May 2018

For the last few years, professor Catherine Coray has been helping create collaboration opportunities for theatre artists in Arab countries and the Americas. Arab Voices: Stories of Palestine is the most recent iteration, and has taken place in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Beirut.

Essay
19 March 2018

Aysan Celik talks about the ways she’s found laughter to be a catalyst for honest conversations with her students about Climate Change.

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