Join us for this first reading of an extract from this new play adapted from Ghassan Kanafani’s classic story Returning to Haifa. The story has been newly adapted by award-winning playwrights Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace. Following the extract, Professor Bashir Abu-Manneh will lead a discussion with the cast.

Ismail Khalidi is a playwright and director who has written, directed, performed, curated and taught internationally. Khalidi’s plays include Tennis in Nablus (Alliance Theatre, 2010), Truth Serum Blues (Pangea World Theater, 2005), Foot (Teatro Amal, 2016-17), Sabra Falling (Pangea World Theater, 2017), Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theatre, 2018) and Dead Are My People (Noor Theatre, 2019). Khalidi’s plays have been published in numerous anthologies.

Naomi Wallace is a playwright from Kentucky who lives in North Yorkshire, U.K. Her plays, which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and the Middle East include In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, One Flea Spare, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Things of Dry Hours, The Fever Chart: Three Vision of the Middle East, And I and Silence, The Hard Weather Boating Party, The Liquid Plain. Her stage adaptation of William Wharton’s novel Birdy was produced on the West End in London.

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