THEATRE AND PROTEST: TAHRIR TALES

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Rebekah Maggor is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts at Cornell University. She is an artist and scholar whose work focuses on political theatre and theatre of protest. She translates, directs, adapts, devises, and researches theatre that questions entrenched power structures and pushes the boundaries of our contemporary political conversation. Her recent work centers on theatre from the Middle East, specifically drama that has emerged over the last several years from the “Arab Spring.” She co-edited, co-translated, and wrote the introduction to the anthology Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution (Seagull Books), which received a Literature in Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. As a Fulbright scholar in the Middle East and North Africa Regional Research Program, she studied Palestinian theatre and performance.