The Insurgent Sea: Poetic Dispatches from the Outskirts of the Terror Wars, 2003-2013

with

Ismail Khalidi
Playwright

Ismail Khalidi reads from his new, unpublished collection of poetry entitled, The Insurgent Sea: Poetic Dispatches from the Outskirts of the Terror Wars, 2003-2013.  Khalidi will also discuss the political, personal and cultural context to the work as well as the general climate for Palestinian artists today.

Born in Beirut to Palestinian parents and raised in Chicago, Ismail Khalidi is a playwright and poet.  He holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is the author of the award-winning play Tennis in Nablus, which explores the Palestinians’ 1936-39 revolt against British Colonial rule. His plays have been produced and read at theaters and universities around the country, including Atlanta’s Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre (Tennis in Nablus, 2010). Khalidi’s other plays include Truth Serum Blues, which was commissioned and produced by Pangea World Theater (2005), Final Status, and most recently, Sabra Falling. Khalidi’s writing on politics and culture has appeared in The Nation, The Daily Beast, American Theatre Magazine, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. His poetry and plays have been published by Mizna, where he was recently a writer-in-residence. Khalidi is currently co-editing an anthology of Palestinian plays due out in 2014 from TCG. He lives in New York.