Acknowledgments Foreword: Hope Arising from Despair - Elias Khoury 1 Introduction Eyad Houssami 2 Refugees on the Syrian Stage: Soirée for the 5th of June Edward Ziter 3 Saadallah Wannous in Palestine: On and Offstage Performances and Pedagogies Rania Jawad 4 Performance through the Egyptian Revolution: Stories from Tahrir Dalia Basiouny 5 Three Egyptian Plays in the Wake of the January Revolution Samia Habib 6 Staging a Protest: Socio-Political Critique in Contemporary Yemeni Theatre Katherine Hennessey 7 The Legacy of Saadallah Wannous and Soirée for the 5th of June amidst the Arab Revolts Asaad Al-Saleh 8 Emerging Playwrights in Syria Meisoun Ali 9 Practicing Theatre and Playwriting in Damascus Abdullah Al Kafri 10 12 Angry Lebanese in Roumieh Prison Zeina Daccache 11 What has Slipped Away is So Far, and What is Yet to Come So Close Rabih Mroué 12 Shakespeare, Global Debris, and International Political Theatre Sulayman Al Bassam 13 The Things I am Afraid to Tell You: Performing Palestine in Diaspora Joseph Shahadi 14 Doomed by "Dialogue," Saved by Curiosity? Post-9/11 Arab Performances under American Eyes Margaret Litvin 15 Remembering Saadallah Wannous Jawad Al Asadi Contributor Biographies.