Press & media

Arifa Akbar - The Guardian

“★★★★★ "Sudden moments of pain injects a drama that moves through trauma and into joy that feels deeply radical, heartwarming and filled with love.(...) It is art, activism, political resistance and storytelling - painful, joyous, elemental and essential."

Return to Palestine - review

★★★★★ The Guardian

06.2025

by Arifa Akbar

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Chapter about the Pedagogy of Cultural Resistance

THE FREEDOM THEATRE: PERFORMING CULTURAL RESISTANCE IN PALESTINE. Edited by Ola Johansson and Johanna Wallin. New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2018; n.p.

I have written a chapter about the work of The Freedom Theatre School and the pedagogy of cultural resistance in Jenin Refugee camp.

Working with Troupe Courage

About masks and the poetics of survival work of Theatre Troupe Courage and their artistic director Katrien Van Beurden.

About The Freedom Theatre's work in Cultural Resistance

Making you feel what we feel. The Freedom Theatre in Jenin

12.01.2017

Interview with Micaela Miranda and Nabil Alraee by Verena Straub

Article about my work (Portuguese)

Micaela Miranda, uma atriz na Palestina: «Contar histórias é resistir» - Notícias Magazine por Ana Faleiro.

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Award-Winning Return to Palestine

About the award-winning play Return to Palestine - created by going into different communities of the Palestinian Occupied Territories in the West Bank gathering personal stories through Playback Theatre.