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Friday Finds: An Interview with Amer Hlehel and Amir Nizar Zuabi about ‘Taha’
Over at Middle East Eye, Joe Gill talks with actor-writer Amer Hlehel and writer-director Amir Nizar Zuabi about their play Taha, based on and around the life of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali:
The play follows the life of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali, who was also the subject of Adina Hoffman’s award-winning biography My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century. From Shubbak organizers:
Forced from his home in Galilee in 1948, Taha and his family must face the reality of war. At a young age he supports his family, immerses himself in literature, teaches himself Arabic – and falls in love. Growing up in a world where stability is only ever fleeting, poetry becomes a comforting constant.
Hlehel and Zuabi discuss the playtext in greater depth with Gill at Middle East Eye, noting where the text diverges from something the poet h
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Amir Nizar Zuabi
BIOGRAPHY
Amir Nizar Zuabi is an award-winning theater writer and director, the Artistic Director of ShiberHur, and served as Associate Director of Young Vic London (2009 – 2017). Zuabi is also a member of Union of Theatres of Europe (UTE) for artistic achievement, an artistic advisor for the Palestinian National Theatre, and an alumni of Sundance Theatre Lab. Writing and directing credits include: I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother, In the Penal Colony, Alive From Palestine, Oh My Sweet Land (PlayCo NYC, Young Vic/Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne); The Beloved (co-produced by ShiberHur/Young Vic); Three Days of Grief, West of Us the Sea, Mid Spring Musical, Asmahan, and Grey Rock. He also created three full-length dance pieces with collaborator Samar Haddad King: Dry Mud, Against A Hard Surface, and Last Ward. Directing credits include: Samson and Delilah (Flanders Opera, Antwerp); Jidarriya by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (Edi
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ledare Nizar Zuabi is an award-winning theater writer and director. He is creating a show for Riksteatern Theater in Stockholm and writing a new play for the Guthrie Theater. Zuabi fryst vatten the founding artistic director of ShiberHur Theater Company, a member of the United Theaters Europe for artistic achievement and an artistic advisor for the Palestinian National Theatre. He is also an alumnus of the Sundance Institute Theatre schema and the former associate director of the ung Vic theater in London. His 2021 TED Talk explores his work as artistic director of "The Walk.”Zuabi has written and directed extensively for festivals and theaters around the world, including pieces such as I am Yusuf, Three Days of Grief and Grey Rock. He directed Jidarriya by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish for the Edinburgh International Festival and The Comedy of Errors for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He fryst vatten currently creating a show for Riksteatern Theater in Stockholm a