Afterword / by Jamil Khoury and Michael Malek Najjar. The admission: a play in fourteen scenes / Motti Lerner: Essay: Motti Lerner's The Admission: accounting and atoning for the past / Michael Malek Najjar ; Playwright statement: facing the trauma of 1948 ; Playscript -- Scenes from 70* years / Hannah Khalil: Essay: Hannah Khalil's Scenes from 70* Years: snapshots from a seemingly endless occupation / Michael Malek Najjar ; Playwright statement: humanizing the "other" ; Playscript -- Tennis in Nablus / Ismail Khalidi ; Essay: Ismail Khalidi's Tennis in Nablus: mining history for the origins of the conflict / Michael Malek Najjar ; Playwright statement: writing Palestine's invisible history ; Playscript -- Urge for going: trilogy version / Mona Mansour : Essay: Mona Mansour's Urge for Going: dramatizing "permanent impermanence" / Michael Malek Najjar ; Playwright statement: the unspeakable loss of displacement ; Playscript -- The victims: or what do you want me to do about it? / Ken Kaissar ; Essay: Ken Kaissar's The Victims: sympathy for the suffering / Michael Malek Najjar ; Playwright statement: who are the victims? ; Playscript -- The Zionists / Zohar Tirosh-Polk ; Essay: Zohar Tirosh-Polk's The Zionists: tracking generational trauma / Michael Malek Najjar ; Playwright statement: The Zionists: a reckoning ; Playscript -- Afterword / by Jamil Khoury and Michael Malek Najjar.
Summary:
"A bold and singular collection of six plays by Arab and Jewish playwrights explores the human toll of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Admission by Motti Lerner, Scenes From 70* Years by Hannah Khalil, Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi, Urge for Going by Mona Mansour, The Victims by Ken Kaissar, and The Zionists by Zohar Tirosh-Polk"-- Provided by publisher.
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