Methuen Drama, 2019

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Described by the author as "a paranoid thought game", born of the insecurity he felt as an Arab/Muslim American in the months following the 9/11 attacks. It follows a young Arab-American (Khaled) as he is questioned and confined by two...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (4), Female (0), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A dystopian reflection of the vast network of black site/secret prisons established by the Central Intelligence Agency after 9/11 with the aim of confidentially detaining those deemed terrorists and subjecting them to indefinite detention...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Examines the intra-Muslim conflicts that face writers, imams, and second-generation Arab Americans. The successful Arab writer Mohsen is pitted against the struggling writer Gamal and his novelist girlfriend Noor. Each has contended...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...A charming romantic comedy with a twist, this play follows Musa, an Egyptian immigrant and Sheri, a Caucasian waitress. The pair navigate their feelings about each other and love alongside the expected cultural norms that often prove...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A scintillating mise-en-scene that slyly camouflages the fact that the play is actually about the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Western neo-imperialism and a scathing critique of Orientalism in the American publishing establishment. With a trio...