Portare in scena il conflitto: Palestina, Israele e Stati Uniti nel teatro arabo-americano

The essay explores the representation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of the role played by the US in terms of soft and hard power, in the work of Arab-American playwrights of MiddleEastern origins. After a brief outline of the transnational connections and exchanges in the theatre network linking the Middle East and the United States, the essay explores how works by Ishmail Khalidi, Mona Mansour, Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader articulate the dichotomies the war relies on in terms of Otherness as double(ness), thereby affecting identities, geographies and individual paths, in a ceaseless struggle between belonging and displacement.