Sulayman al-Bassam

My preface to the Oberon Books edition of Sulayman Al Bassam's play text UR, premiered at Munich's Residenztheater in September 2018. The play is based on the ancient poem "Lamentation for the Destruction of Ur."

See the play: https://www.residenztheater.de/inszenierung/ur
Buy the script: https://www.oberonbooks.com/sulayman-al-bassam.html

More candid and fun than the interview that just came out in PMLA. On the paradoxes of producing Arabic Shakespeare for largely non-Arabic-speaking audiences. Recorded in Beirut, June 2011.
Published in Alexa Huang and Elizabeth Rivlin, eds., Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (Routledge, 2014). http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/shakespeare-and-the-ethics-of-appropriation-alexa-huang/?K=9781137375766