Introduction Robert Myers and Sonja Mejcher-Atassi; Part I. Situating Wannous: 1. Wannous, Syrian and world drama Marvin Carlson; 2. Wannous and Brecht: The Playwright as Political Activist Robert Myers and Nada Saab; Part II. Reading Wannous: 3. Keeping Silent, or the Silence that Kept Wannous Zeina G. Halabi; 4. The Failure of Revolutionary Humanism: Reading Wannous with Fanon Friederike Pannewick; 5. Historiography as Resistance in the Later Plays of Wannous Edward Ziter; Part III. Staging Wannous: 6. Rituals Transformed: Wannous, Intercultural Translation, and the Widening Gyre Margaret Litvin; 7. Speaking the Unspeakable: On Directing Wannous Sahar Assaf; 8. Conversation with Contemporary Playwright Mohammad Al Attar Mohammad Al-Attar; Part IV. Remembering Wannous; 9. Unpacking Wannous' Library Sonja Mejcher-Atassi; 10. A Student of Theatre in Paris Farouk Mardam-Bey; 11. Grammar of Life and Death Elias Khoury; 12. Be What You Want to Be Dima Wannous.