The show at Georgetown University was a first for me, and maybe, according to Waleed Shamil, a first for this country. In a black box space in the bowels of the school's Davis Performing Arts Center, an Iraqi actress, Layla Mohammed, enacted in Arabic the narrative of American playwright Heather Raffo's "9 Parts of Desire," a drama giving voice to nine ordinary Iraqi women. Read full article >>
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:41PM on June 22, 2012