Political Theatre Between Wars: Staging an Alternative Middle East

Sahar Assaf is an actress, director, and assistant professor of theatre at the American University of Beirut. She recently co-established the AUB Theatre Initiative with playwright and English Professor Robert Myers for which she co-translated, co-directed, and starred in Shakespeare's King Lear at al-Madina Theatre in Beirut, the first production of Shakespeare in Lebanese colloquial. She is a member of Lincoln Center Director's Lab and a Fulbright alumnus.