The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous
A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual

Editors

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, American University of Beirut
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is an Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of English at the American University of Beirut. Her research centers on modern Arabic literature, writers' biographies and libraries, book culture, archival and museum studies, cultural history and memory, and aesthetics and politics. Her publications include Rafa Nasiri: Artist Books (2016; ed. with May Muzaffar), Reading across Modern Arabic Literature and Art (2012), Archives, Museums, and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (2012; ed. with John Pedro Schwartz), and Writing a 'Tool for Change': 'Abd al-Rahman Munif Remembered (2007; ed.).

Robert Myers, American University of Beirut
Robert Myers is Professor of English and Director of the Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of over fifteen plays, including Atwater: Fixin' to Die, Mesopotamia and Unmanned (adapted as Drone Pilots for BBC's Radio 4), which have been produced at major theatres in New York, Chicago, Washington, and Los Angeles. He is the co-editor/co-translator with Nada Saab of Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant (2018) and Sentence to Hope: A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader (2019). He has received grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Mellon Foundation and two Fulbright awards.

Contributors

Robert Myers, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Marvin Carlson, Nada Saab, Zeina G. Halabi, Friederike Pannewick, Edward Ziter, Margaret Litvin, Sahar Assaf, Mohammad Al-Attar, Farouk Mardam-Bey, Elias Khoury, Dima Wannous