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How Cultural Resistance for Palestine Makes Revolution Irresistible
Essay
How Cultural Resistance for Palestine Makes Revolution Irresistible
by Beto O'Byrne
15 May 2024
Art as a Weapon (Youth Against Invasion)
Video
Art as a Weapon (Youth Against Invasion)
Students from the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine talk about cultural resistance and creating in times of crisis. 
Saturday 16 March 2024
Theatre in Palestine
Podcast
Theatre in Palestine
by Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Jeries AbuJaber
31 January 2024
An exercise from the Youth Theatre Festival.
Dispatch from the Youth Theater Festival in Ramallah, Palestine—Part One
Essay

Dispatch from the Youth Theater Festival in Ramallah, Palestine—Part One

2 July 2014

In 2012, eleven young theater students succeeded in starting Ashtar’s first youth festival. Ashtar Theatre, which was founded in 1991 by Iman Aoun and Edward Muallem, describes itself as “a dynamic local Palestinian theatre with a truly progressive global perspective.” Their core programs are drama training of local youth through an extracurricular after school program, Theater of the Oppressed Forum Theatre productions that explore “essential critical topics in Palestinian society” and international collaborations.

Nabil Al-Ra’ee and his daughter.
Death and Art in Palestine
Essay

Death and Art in Palestine

Nabil Al-Ra’ee and The Freedom Theatre

15 April 2014

Patricia Davis writes about The Freedom Theatre in Palestine, focusing on its controversial work with youth and its history, which includes the assassination of their founder.