BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32302@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240302T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240302T203000 DTSTAMP:20240221T142831Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/najla-said-performance-palestine/ SUMMARY:Najla Said Performance: Palestine DESCRIPTION:[caption id="attachment_245330" align="alignnone" width="300"] Nadja Said Palestine Performance promotional poster.[/caption]\n\n \;\ n\n \;\n\nBOSTON\, MA\n\nIn Palestine\, actor/playwright Najla Said pr ovides a unique passage into one of the most volatile and historic corners of the earth. With compassion\, humor\, and honesty she makes a case for Palestinian and Arab points of view in ways that truly allow them to be he ard. Raised in privilege on New York City’s Upper West Side (where many of her best friends were Jewish) Najla was forced as a teenager to take a family trip to the Middle East to visit her father’s homeland. Anorexic and depressed\, obsessed with boys and the beach\, her experiences neverth eless kindled a life-long exploration of what it means to be both Arab and American. Najla takes audiences on a whirlwind tour from kissing Jewish b oys to “the stench of Gaza\,” through two wars\, the horrors of 9/11\, encounters with world figures including Yasser Arafat\, and life with her beloved father. Edward Said\, was a professor at Columbia University and\ , until his death in 2003\, a worldwide spokesman for Palestine and the Mi ddle East.\n\nPalestine was originally produced in 2010 by Twilight Theatr e Company in association with New York Theatre Workshop. The eight-week Of f-Broadway run at the Fourth Street Theater was sold-out. In 2012 Palestin e was subsequently produced by InterAct Theatre as part of their Outside t he Frame Festival in Philadelphia. Najla has a performed a concert version of the play all over the country with performances at Harvard\, Brown\, B oston College\, Franklin and Marshall\, University of Michigan\, Universit y of Alabama\, Middlebury\, among dozens of others.\n\nIn 2013 Najla expan ded the play into a memoir published by Penguin Books under the title Look ing for Palestine. She went on a nationwide book tour sometimes performing the concert version of the play in lieu of book readings.\n\nNajla Said ( Playwright\, Performer) As an actress\, Najla has performed Off-Broadway\, regionally and internationally\, as well as in film and television. Favor ite theatre credits include Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire (Seattl e Rep)\, the London and New York premieres of Karen Malpede’s Prophecy\, and Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East ( Central Square Theater). In April 2010\, Najla completed an eight-week Off -Broadway run of her solo show\, Palestine. That same year\, she was named one of “Forty Feminists Under Forty” by The Feminist Press. Since her Off-Broadway run ended\, Najla has performed “Palestine” in over 25 h igh schools\, colleges\, and universities around the country and the world .\n\nNajla is one of New York Theatre Workshop’s “Usual Suspects\,” and has also worked at the Public\, The Cherry Lane\, New Dramatists\, The Lark\, and Second Stage\, among others.\n\nIn 2012\, she collaborated wit h Vanessa Redgrave on “A World I Loved\,” based on her grandmother’s memoir\, which premiered at The Brighton Festival in the UK\, and The Mil ler Theatre in collaboration with The Public Theatre in New York.\n\nIn th e spring of 2014 Najla’s play The Assumption of Mary was featured as one of the 48 plays in The Mysteries at The Flea Theatre.\n\nIn October 2016\ , her libretto for Mahmoud Fairouz’s Oratorio\, “Zabur” was performe d at Carnegie Hall\, and in 2018 the composer David Robert Coleman used so me of the text from “Palestine” to create a musical piece that was per formed by the West Eastern Divan Orchestra\, conducted by Maestro Daniel B arenboim\, on their European tour. The piece premiered in Aarhus\, Denmark \, and was also performed at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in Lon don\, and the Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals.\n\nNajla also recently guest starred on NCIS: New Orleans (CBS-TV.)\n\nSturgis Warner has been an acto r and director for many years in New York City\, specializing in new plays and new play development. As an actor he has worked at The Public Theater \, Atlantic Theater Company\, Signature\, Second Stage\, La Mama\, Actors Theatre of Louisville\, Portland Stage\, among others. He has directed man y new plays in New York and around the country.\n\nWe are happy to collabo rate with Her Story Is ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/02/Palestine-Performance-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR