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It is August 1982 and Beirut is under siege. In the Sabra refugee camp the specter of a massacre looms as the Akawi family receives an unexpected visitor that brings the past rushing back and alters the course of events to come.

Followed by a Q&A and discussion with the artist.
$10 suggest donation

Co-presented by Mizna and Pangea World Theater, this reading is free and open to the public.
Written by Ismail Khalidi
Directed by Dipankar Mukherjee

ISMAIL KHALIDI. Born in Beirut and raised in Chicago, Ismail Khalidi, Mizna’s first ever Writer-in-Residence, is a Palestinian-American playwright, actor and author. His plays include “Truth Serum Blues” (Pangea World Theater, 2005), the award-winning “Tennis in Nablus,” and “Final Status.”

Khalidi is currently co-editing an anthology of Palestinian plays due out in 2014 from TCG and is adapting Ghassan Kanafani’s “Return to Haifa” for the stage. His writing has appeared in Mizna, American Theater, the Daily Beast, and the Nation. He holds a BA from Macalester College and an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is currently based in New York City.