Shifting the Spotlight: Exploring the Scarcity of Female Voices in Iraqi Theatre
Upon the release of Contemporary Plays from Iraq in 2017, my focus shifted to translating works...
Read MorePosted by Amir Al-Azraki | 7th Jan 2024 | Essay, Iraq, Playwriting, Theatre and Gender
Upon the release of Contemporary Plays from Iraq in 2017, my focus shifted to translating works...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read More