9th January, National Theatre of Tunis, Journees Theatrales de Cartage, 2012
11th January, Sousa Municipal Theatre, Sousa, Tunis, Journees Theatrales de Cartage, 2012
On trash and the city as its receptacle. On citizenship, Kuwaiti protests against corruption, the Green Caravan and Rwandan President, Paul Kagame's "Umaganda" initiative which obliges all citizens, ministers included, to clean th...
Alia Mahdy's naked body in Egypt and litigation by French and Belgian muslim women against the States that criminalised the wearing of the "niqab" in public; the female body is at the heart of so many questions raised by the Arab Spring....
The National Academy of Arts in Kuwait has been over 30 years in the making- and is still not made! An institution that could be a milestone and fortress of cultural production in the region has had its birth aborted repeatedly over the years by t...
Filmed archive of the discussion around Al-Bassam's ten year journey in the making of "The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy" held at Boston University presented by Professor Margaret Litivin with Professor Graham Holderness and Al Bassam, ...
Comparing the Bostonian school of civic philanthropy with that practised by the Kuwaiti super rich leads Al Bassam onto a series of darkly comic reflections on the real causes of the cultural death-wish inside Kuwaiti society and a chance meeting ...
Drawing on the remarkable experience of the Polynesian Islands of Tuvalu in mishandling the sudden wealth procured to its inhabitants by an internet deal at the height of the dot-com boom, Al-Bassam reflects on the eerily similar fate that threate...
