ALL PROJECTS
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AND HERE I AM
ARTISTS ON THE FRONTLINE
Director
A powerful coming of age story from Jenin Refugee Camp Palestine. Continuing touring globally for eight years.
📍PALESTINE / FRANCE / UK / BELGIUM / CHILE / SWITZERLAND / GERMANY / ITALY / CATALUNYA / SLOVENIA / EGYPT / ZIMBABWE / INDIA / PAKISTAN / NORWAY
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QUEENS OF SYRIA
YOUNG VIC CO-PRODUCTION
Director
An adaptation of Euripides’ Trojan Women created and performed by 13 women displaced from Syria.
📍SYRIA / UK
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SO MANY REASONS
FUEL THEATRE
Director
A bold, intimate, and fiercely honest play exploring the collision of patriarchy & religion told through the lens of Rachel Ofori.
📍SOHO THEATRE / UK TOUR
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THE SIEGE
THE FREEDOM THEATRE
Co-Director
Based on the true story of Palestinian armed resistance fighters held under siege in the Church of the Nativity.
📍PALESTINE / UK / USA
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THE LAST HARVEST
NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE
Co-Creator & Co-Director
A site specific response to food shortages across the UK due to the climate crisis, created with young people and local farmers.
📍SOULTON HALL FARM
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THE HOST
NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE
Director
An urgent response to the Brexit vote, the European refugee crisis and increasing far-right government policies.
📍YARD THEATRE, UK
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THE FEAR OF BREATHING
Director & Writer
A verbatim piece based on the testimonies of those participating in the Syrian Revolution.
📍SYRIA / UK / JAPAN
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THE REVOLUTION'S PROMISE
ARTISTS ON THE FRONTLINE
Writer & Co-Creator
A mass mobilisation project based on testimonies with Palestinian artists who have been imprisonment, torture and murdered.
📍PALESTINE / GLOBAL
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KEEPERS OF INFINITE SPACE
Director
An exploration of the Israeli prison system and the violence enacted on over 40% of the male Palestinian population.
📍PARK THEATRE, UK
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VISIT BETHLEHEM
ARTISTS ON THE FRONTLINE
Director
A street performance taking audiences in London on a tour of one of Palestine’s most famous cities Bethlehem.
📍VAULT FESTIVAL, UK
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WHAT ELSE?
THE FREEDOM THEATRE
Co-Director
Created with youth from Jenin Refugee Camp in the response to the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis, artistic director of The Freedom Theatre.
📍PALESTINE / FRANCE / AUSTRIA / GERMANY / SWITZERLAND
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
THE FREEDOM THEATRE
Co-Director
A radical remiagining of Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll’s story is told through a distinctly Palestinian social and political lens.
📍JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, PALESTINE
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LOST BOYS
NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE
Director
Created with young people in the UK, this musical explores male depression and suicide in the North of England.
📍UNITY THEATRE, LIVERPOOL / UK TOUR
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TINY ACTS
CSSD
Co-Director
An intimate promenade performance combining music and dance telling telling stories of tiny acts of resistance to stop climate crisis.
📍SHORDITCH TOWN HALL, UK
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KUFFIYEH MADE IN CHINA
RADA
Director
A sharp, satirical play by Dalia Taha interrogating identity,, and globalisation through the iconic Palestinian symbol of the kuffiyeh.
📍GIELGUD THEATRE, UK
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CONCRETE JUNGLE
Director
Exploring the daily reality for young people growing up in London facing police brutality, a failing education system and no access to work.
📍RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, UK
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IN A THOUSAND SILENCES
VITUAL REALITY
Co-Creator & Writer
Using the latest digital technology to defy borders, walls and checkpoints, global audiences are immersed in Palestinian cultural spaces.
📍PALESTINE / SCREENING GLOBALLY
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WITH FIRE & RAGE
IMMERSIVE AUDIO
Co-Creator & Writer
Combing testimony with art, 360 photography, poetry and music, this smartphone adventure explores cultural resistance in Ukraine.
📍UKRAINE / UK
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MAYDAY
CITIZEN JOURNALISM PLATFORM
Creator & Editor
A digital platform for artist-led citizen journalism from Jenin Refugee Camp, Palestine.
📍PALESTINE / GLOBAL
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THE CULTURAL INTIFADA
DIGITAL ACTIVIST ARCHIVE
Co-Creator & Co-Writer
A digital archive documenting a global movement of creative resistance against cultural genocide in Palestine.
📍PALESTINE / GLOBAL
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RESHAPE
PROTOTYPE
Co-Creator & Co-Writer
A research-driven prototype and reimagining the arts ecosystem and collaborative change-making in the culture.
📍EUROPE
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EGYPT & CLIMATE CRISIS
AUDIO SERIES
Co-Creator & Co-Producer
An audio series talking to artists from Egypt and of Egyptian heritage about climate, crisis, environment, protest and change.
📍EGYPT / GLOBAL
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MESSAGES FROM GAZA
AUDIO SNAPSHOTS
Co-Creator & Audio Editor
Audio snapshots from Hossam al-Madhoun’s messages sent from Gaza during the genocide. Part of a long term collaboration between Theatre For Everybody & AZ Theatre.
📍PALESTINE / GLOBAL
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A POINT OF CONNECTION
AUDIO SERIES
Co-Creator & Co-Producer
An audio series exploring how we build connection, through smashing oppression, shatter stereotypes, and reclaim space.
📍SWANA / GLOBAL
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YOUTH AGAINST INVASION
DIGITAL PUBLICATION
Co-Creator & Editor
From Jenin Camp to Gaza: the thoughts, words, and voices of young people across Palestine, speaking to the world under invasion.
📍PALESTINE / GLOBAL
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SNAPSHOTS OF CHILDHOOD
AUDIO SNAPSHOTS
Co-Creator & Editor
Audio snapshots from interviews across generations on childhood and growing up in Jenin Refugee Camp, Palestine.
📍PALESTINE / GLOBAL
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LOST NATION
DOCUMENTARY & PROMENADE THEATRE
Associate Producer & Associate Director
A powerful documentary and promenade theatre project on UK government austerity policies and their devastating impact on communities across London.
📍LONDON, UK
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OIKOS PROJECT
THE RED ROOM
Associate Director
London’s first theatre built entirely from recycled materials, featuring two new productions on the climate crisis.
📍LONDON, UK
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ISOBEL
THE RED ROOM
Director
Part of the larger Lost Nation project, this story follows Isobel, who turns to activism after her family is evicted from their Kilburn home.
📍LONDON, UK
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GAZA BREATHING SPACE
THEATRE FOR EVERYBODY & AZ THEATRE
Co-Writer
Voices of Gaza’s children, set against the words of Hossam Al Madhoun, exploring what future remains after Israel’s 2008–2009 Gaza massacre.
📍GAZA, PALESTINE /
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OFF RECORD
THEATRE FOR EVERYBODY & AZ THEATRE
Writer
Off-the-record interviews with NGO and development aid workers in Palestine, critically examining the industry’s role in undermining Palestinian self-determination and liberation.
📍PALESTINE / SOHO THEATRE, UK
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ARTISTS ON THE FRONTLINE
Founder & Director
A creative force for radical artists using culture as a form of resistance.
📍GLOBAL
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NUWA
Co-Founder & Co-Director
A home for independent artists in Palestine, where creativity meets cultural resistance.
📍PALESTINE
OPINION PIECES
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CENSORSHIP & AN AUTHORITARIAN STATE
THE NEW ARAB
The UK erased Banksy’s mural from the Royal Courts rather than face the truth.
📍UK
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THE CULTURAL INTIFADA
THE NEW ARAB
Gaza genocide one year on: From Palestine to UK, artists are fighting to bear truth.
📍PALESTINE / GLOBAL
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CULTURAL GENOCIDE
THE NEW ARAB
As Israel manipulates the truth and silences Palestinian voices, art and culture are powerful tools of resistance.
📍PALESTINE
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A Palestinian artistic leader
MIDDLE EAST EYE
Zakaria Zubeidi: The Palestinian revolutionary and artistic leader who escaped Israeli prison.
📍PALESTINE
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CARYL CHURCHILL PRIZE RESCINDED
THE NEW ARAB
The attacks on Caryl Churchill are part and parcel of continued assaults on Palestinians.
📍PALESTINE / GERMANY
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DREAMS OF LIBERATION
THE NEW ARAB
Resisting Israel’s long history of targeting Palestinian artists and work as a silencing strategy must be resisted.
📍PALESTINE
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UKRAINIAN ARTISTS UNDER INVASION
THE STAGE
Making sure Ukrainian cultural identity and heritage survive.
📍UKRAINE
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CREATIVE DISOBEDIENCE COP26
THE STAGE
Artists and theatremakers are out in force at COP26 to protest and create a counter conversation.
📍SCOTLAND
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INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY IS URGENT
THE NEW ARAB
Palestinians know this won’t be the last time the army raids the camp, which only makes international solidarity more urgent.
📍PALESTINE
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THE ETHICS OF CULTURE
THE NEW ARAB
The British Museum is facing growing criticism over its funding, how it sourced ancient artefacts and its treatment of workers.
📍UK
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THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN
THE NEW ARAB
Cultural resistance in Palestine through the eyes of women.
📍PALESTINE
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ARTS IN A TIME OF SIEGE
THE NEW ARAB
20 years since Israel stormed Jenin refugee Camp, artists rise up against continued invasion.
📍PALESTINE
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POWER OF PERFORMANCE
THE STAGE
Ten years after the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis Artistic Director and Co-Founder of The Freedom Theatre.
📍PALESTINE
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CULTURE FOR THE SAKE OF LIFE
OPEN DEMOCRACY
Over 900 Palestinians have been killed in Operation Protective Edge. Despite the violence, artists continue to resist through cultural.
📍PALESTINE