For more information about my scholarly work, see my CV here.
PUBLICATIONS:
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
“Performance Review: Artificial Heart: Thinking into the Future.” Arab Stages, volume 17 (March 2025). https://www.thesegalcenter.org/arab-stages/artificial-heart.-by-mohammad-basha-and-firas-farrah.
“Performance Review: Guernica, Gaza: Visions from the Center of the Earth.” Arab Stages, volume 16 (November 2024). https://www.thesegalcenter.org/arab-stages/review%3A-guernica%2C-gaza%3A-visions-from-the-center-of-the-earth.-by-naomi-wallace-and-ismail-khalidi
“Performance Review: Bethlehem Site-Specific Theater Festival.” Arab Stages, volume 14 (November 2023). https://www.thesegalcenter.org/arab-stages/performance-review%3A-bethlehem-site-specific-theater-festival
ARTICLES IN BOOKS
“Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank: An Interview with Iman Aoun.” Essay. In Refugees, migration and erased memories in the aftermath of Yugoslav wars, 2025
“Palestinian Women’s Innovations and Collaborations in ‘Jasadikhom,’ ‘Who_You_R,’ ‘Asli Barri,’ and ‘Tuffah’’.” Essay. In Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, Volume I: Performers 1, Vol. 1. UK: Bloomsbury, 2025.
“Agency through Adaptation: MENA Women in Shakespeare’s Sisters, Jogging, and Noura” Essay. In Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities NY, NY: Routledge, 2024.
ARTICLES
“Exploring Affinity Spaces: Insights from the 2023 MENATMA Convening.” Theatre Topics, volume 35 (October 2024). [co-authored with Nabra Nelson]
“Reactivating Medea in Hanane Hajj Ali’s Jogging.” TDR: The Drama Review 69, no. 1 (September 2024). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-drama-review/all-issues.
“Oslo vs. The Accords: Examining the Global Consequences of Fractional Truths on Stage.” Arab Stages 11 (2019).
“Brecht in 2017: Alienation vs. Immersion.” Theatre/Practice: The Online Journal of the Practice/production Symposium of the Mid-America Theatre Conference 8 (2019).
BOOK REVIEWS
“To the Good People of Gaza: Theatre for Young People” by Jackie Lubeck and Theatre Day Productions edited and with an introduction by Samer Al-Saber, Arab Stages (2025) https://www.thesegalcenter.org/arab-stages/review%3A-to-the-good-people-of-gaza%3A-theatre-for-young-people
“The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi.” Eumenica, (2020).
“Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays.” Theatre History Studies, (2019).
Recent Conference Presentations:
International Federation for Theatre Research, Manila, Philippines, July 2025
Title: “Laughing in the Face of Occupation: Clowning in Palestine”Arab Council for Social Sciences Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, May 2025 (accepted but could not attend)
International Federation for Theatre Research, Manila, Philippines, July 2024
Title: “Palestinian Sperm Smuggling A Force for Futurity: Looking Beyond Amira”“Alt-Pop Musical Theatre Through Decades and Across Countries” presented in the “Hot Topics in Musical Theatre Dramaturgy” panel on Zoom at LMDA Convention Presentations, 2024
American Society for Theatre Research, Providence, Rhode Island November 2023
Title: “The Joy Effect: Clowning Under Occupation”Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, January 2023
Title: “A Diasporic Love Letter: Transnationalism in Mo”American Society for Theatre Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2022
Title: “Palestinian Sperm Smuggling: A Force for Futurity Amidst the Continued Catastrophe of Occupation”American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, CA, October 2021
Title: “Faith and Fire: The Ritual Performance of the Miracle of the Holy Fire”American Association of Community Theatre, Fall 2021
Title": “Reimagining the Playing Space: The Practical Application of Viewpoints in the Rehearsal Room”Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Summer 2021
“Workshopping New Worlds in a Post-Covid Community”
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