Ashtar theater group

Play satirizes how aid donors sideline Palestinians

Michelle Gyeney
Jenin refugee camp
1 July 2012
A new play addresses the Palestinian Authority’s addiction to “green medicine” — the $1 billion in foreign aid it receives annually.

Shakespeare in Palestine: theater director speaks on Arabic version of Richard II

Sarah Irving
27 April 2012
Iman Aoun, artistic director of Ramallah’s Ashtar theater group, discusses the upcoming performance an Arabic-language version of Shakespeare’s Richard II at the Globe Theater in London.

Palestinian theater student interviewed in experimental short film documentary

“For a Language to Come,” by Kelman Duran and Hyesung Moon, features Ahlam Khamis, a Palestinian theater student at the California Institute of the Arts (where the filmmakers are both graduate students). In the film, shot on 16mm, Khamis describes her work with the Ashtar theater group in Ramallah.
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