AcknowledgmentsForeword: Hope Arising from Despair by Elias Khoury1. IntroductionEyad Houssami2. Refugees on the Syrian Stage: Soirée for the 5th of June by Edward Ziter3. Saadallah Wannous in Palestine: On and Offstage Performances and Pedagogies by Rania Jawad4. Performance through the Egyptian Revolution: Stories from Tahrir by Dalia Basiouny5. Three Egyptian Plays in the Wake of the January Revolution by Samia Habib6. Staging a Protest: Socio-Political Critique in Contemporary Yemeni Theatre by Katherine Hennessey7. The Legacy of Saadallah Wannous and Soirée for the 5th of June amidst the Arab Revolts by Asaad Al-Saleh8.

Emerging Playwrights in Syria by Meisoun Ali9. Practicing Theatre and Playwriting in Damascus by Abdullah Al Kafri10. 12 Angry Lebanese in Roumieh Prison by Zeina Daccache11. What has Slipped Away is So Far, and What is Yet to Come So Close by Rabih Mroué12. Shakespeare, Global Debris, and International Political Theatre by Sulayman Al Bassam13. The Things I am Afraid to Tell You: Performing Palestine in Diaspora by Joseph Shahadi14. Doomed by "Dialogue," Saved by Curiosity? Post-9/11 Arab Performances under American Eyes by Margaret Litvin15. Remembering Saadallah Wannous by Jawad Al AsadiContributor Biographies.