Chez the Maidenly Madam is a contemporary Syrian queer play that centralizes queer characters and raises important questions about authority, family, asylum, gender, and sexuality in the context of an...

Syrian artists have taken on the role of historians, reporters and storytellers. They are trying to answer the question: “What really happened in Syria?”

Asylum ceased to be a mere legal status for Syrians, as it turned into an identity with special features and aspects that went beyond a legal denomination. It had meanings...

At first, most theater practitioners abroad wanted to use art as testimony and introduce the “others”—or Western audiences—to the Syrian reality, away from the news published by international media outlets....

The theater, especially during the first years of the war, became dangerous for technicians and actors, who faced the risk of death at any minute on their way to and...