Al-Assadi

Amir Al-Azraki is a theatre scholar and an Associate Professor of Arabic language, literature, and culture at University of Waterloo, Canada. Playwright: Waiting for Gilgamesh: Scenes from Iraq, The Mug, and The Widow. Author: The Discourse of War in Contemporary Theatre (in Arabic). Translator: Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary. Co-editor and co-translator of Contemporary Plays from Iraq.

Jeffery P. Casey is Associate Professor of Theatre and Theatre Director at Norwich University, USA. His scholarly articles have appeared in Theatre Topics, Modern Drama, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Ecumenica.