Unjust Laughter: Representations of Equity-Deserving Groups in Contemporary Iraqi Comedy
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...
Read MoreAmir Al-Azraki is an Arab-Canadian playwright, literary translator, Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Studies in Islamic and Arab Cultures Program, Renison University College, University of Waterloo. Among his plays are: Waiting for Gilgamesh: Scenes from Iraq, The Mug, and The Widow. Al-Azraki is the author of The Discourse of War in Contemporary Theatre (in Arabic), co-editor and co-translator of Contemporary Plays from Iraq, “A Rehearsal for Revolution”: An Approach to Theatre of the Oppressed (in Arabic), and co-editor and co-translator of Arabic poetry by female poets in Consequence, The Common, Poetry Foundation and Talking Writing. His current work on anti-Black racism in the Arab world includes documenting Afro-Iraqi cultural heritage and using Theatre of the Oppressed to address anti-Black racism in primary schools in Basra, Iraq.
Posted by Amir Al-Azraki | 8th Jan 2023 | Essay, Iraq, Theatre and Politics
Introduction The ongoing unsettling shift of my identity from a “white” Iraqi back home (in Iraq)...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 28th Jun 2021 | Interview, Iraq, Playwriting
Based on a recent phone interview with Al-Zaidi, the most prominent Iraqi playwright. Ali Al-Zaidi...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 9th Jun 2019 | Iraq, Review, Theatre and Gender
On May 2nd, 2019, at The Institute of Fine Arts in Basra, Banin Abbas, an Iraqi actor, and...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 7th Jan 2019 | Canada, Review
The auditorium buzzes with anticipation. It is opening night for a group of students from the...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 11th May 2017 | Iraq, Theatre and Politics
Introduction [1] Political violence (resistance violence, revolutionary violence, state violence,...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 4th Mar 2017 | Applied Theatre, Iraq, Participatory Theatre
Theatre of the Oppressed was originated in the 1970s by a Brazilian theatre practitioner and...
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