Career Summary Highlights

• Founding Member and Executive Director of Ettijahat – Independent Culture Organization, based in Beirut and Brussels since 2014.
• Member of the Artistic Council of Dictaphone group, Beirut, Lebanon 2019.
• Member of the Steering Committee of the 8th World Culture Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2019.
• Member of the first Steering Committee of the Hope Spaces Initiative designed by the Hope Action Foundation between 2017-2019.
• Advisor and Dramaturg in the Sundance Foundation Theatre Program’s Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (2015-2020)
•  Lecturer at the Institute for Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies, Department of HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES at St. Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon since 2015.
• Trainer and assistant in the field of policies, planning and cultural management in several regional cultural institutions operating in the Arab region since 2010
• Founding member of the Share’ Theatre Writing Workshop in Damascus (2007 – 2010)

Artistic Fellowships

SOURCE Arts Fellowship 2020.

Publications And Creative Initiatives

• Margin as an option, and vulnerability against violence, No. 21 of Rerards – Institute for Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies, Department of HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES at St. Joseph University, November, Beirut, Lebanon 2019.
• On Acre Sea and Beirut Sky…. Alaa Mohammed and Al-Rafah Hassan in the book “And After”, which highlights testimonies of independent cultural artists and actors, written by more than 80 Syrian and non-Syrian independent artists and actors. Mamdouh Adwan Publishing and Distribution House, United Arab Emirates. 2018.
• On the Margin’s Margin: Some Fragmented Thoughts on the Circumstances of Those who Make Art – in Perspectives Issue #15 – Unboxing the Game: The Obvious & the Obscure- The Heinrich Böll Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon 2018.
• Writing and on-stage exercises, in the book entitled We Are Doomed to Hope: Writing in Theatre, Edited by Iyad Hasami, Dar AL Adab, Beirut, Lebanon 2013.
• Homeland and art lost in migration highlighted in the book That’s what happened: Personal testimonies on the reality of the independent culture in the Arab region, Cairo, Egypt 2012.

Theatrical Texts

• On the Road (2012)
• Mrs. Ghada’s Pain Threshold (2011, pub. 2012)
• The Story of the Spirit and the Cement (pub. 2010, co-authored by Wael Qadour, Mudar Al-Hajji, Soumer Daghestani)
• Half a Gram of Rosy Meat (2008)
• Permission to Visit (2007)
• Colorful Noise (2006)

Drama Contributions

• Turning Point (2020 – Concept & Choreography by Nancy Naous, Paris)
• Dresse-le pour moi (2019 – Concept & Choreography by Nancy Naous, Paris)
• Jogging: Theatre in Progress (2015 – in partnership with Hanane Al Hajj Ali and Eric Dino, Beirut)
• The Battle Scene (2015 & 2016 – dir. Omar Abi Azar, Beirut)
• Small Rooms (2013 – dir. Wael Qadour, Amman)
• Fatmeh (2013 – dir. Ali Chahrour, Beirut)
• The Zoo Story (2010 – dir. Raafat Alzakout, Damascus)
• The Cultural Society (2009 – dir. Raafat Alzakout, Damascus)

Writings

• On the Road (2012)
• Mrs. Ghada’s Pain Threshold (2011, pub. 2012)
• The Story of the Spirit and the Cement (pub. 2010, co-authored by Wael Qadour, Mudar Al-Hajji, Soumer Daghestani)
• Half a Gram of Rosy Meat (2008)
• Permission to Visit (2007)
• Colorful Noise (2006)

Dramaturge

• Turning Point (2020 Concept & Choreography Nancy Naous)
• Dresse-le pour moi (2019 Concept & choreography Nancy Naous)
• Jogging: Theatre in Progress (2015)
• The Battle Scene (2015 & 2016, dir. Omar Abi Azar, Beirut & Kerala)
• Small Rooms (2013, dir. Wael Qadour, Amman) 
• Fatmeh (2013, dir. Ali Chahrour, Beirut)
• The Zoo Story (2010, dir. Raafat Alzakout)
• The Cultural Society (2009, dir. Raafat Alzakout)

Direction

• The Confession (2018, Beirut)
• Mrs. Ghada’s Pain Threshold (2012, Beirut)

Other works

• World Premiere of Damascus-Aleppo, produced by the National Theatre of Scotland & ÒranMór, and in association with The Tron and The Arches, Glasgow & Edinburgh, 2012.
• Participant in the project An Enemy of the People and Pillars of Society: the Tragedy of the Individual, produced by the Ibsen Conference in collaboration with Zoukak Theatre Company, Norway, 2014.

Awards

• First place in the 19^th Mohammad Teymour Competition for Theatrical Creativity for the script Damascus-Aleppo
• Damascus-Aleppo shortlisted as a finalist in the BBC Competition for Best Translated Work, 2008
• Third place in the Short Story category at the Damascus Culture and Heritage Festival, 2005

Education ​​

PhD in Theater Studies
Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, 2015 – 2022

MA in Theater Studies (with Excellence)
Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, 2015

The Chief Executive Program: Community & Culture
National Arts Strategies, USA, 2016

BA in Criticism and Theatrical Studies (1^st in Class)
Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, Damascus, Syria, 2007