Until I Return: The Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi

Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian/Lebanese American playwright, screenwriter and theater director whose work tackles the history of Palestine and the modern Middle East, as well as wider themes of race, colonialism, displacement and war.Michael Malek Najjar, PhD, is a Professor of Theatre Arts with the University of Oregon, USA. Author: Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures and Artists. Editor: The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi; Heather Raffo’s Iraq Plays: The Things That Can’t Be Said. Co-editor: The Vagrant Trilogy: Three Plays by Mona Mansour.Hala Baki, PhD, is a Lecturer in Theatre at California Polytechnic State University. USA. Research interests: Arab American theatre, conditions of theatrical production, and diaspora studies. Publications: The Vagrant Trilogy: Three Plays by Mona Mansour and Dispute in the Diaspora: Metaphor and Contradictions in Arab American Drama.

• Foreword by Naomi Wallace, playwrightAcknowledgementsIntroduction by Hala Baki and Michael Malek NajjarTruth Serum BluesTennis in NablusFinal StatusFootSabra FallingDead Are My PeopleCritical Essay: “Arab, Palestinian, American–The Theatre of Ismail Khalidi” by Edward Blaise Ziter, Professor, NYU TischPlaywright’s ChronologyInterview: “The reason Palestine matters … is because it is about everything.”BibliographyContributor Biographies