Nada Saab, Ph.D. (2003), Yale University, is Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at the Lebanese American University. She is author of several books and articles on Arabic literature both medieval and modern and a translator of modern and contemporary Arabic drama. Robert Myers, Ph.D. (1995), Yale University, (www.robert-myers.com), is Professor of English and Director of the Center for American Studies at the American University of Beirut. The author of over fifteen plays, he is a translator and cultural historian whose research focuses on literature and theater from Latin America, the Arab world and the U.S.

In Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology, Robert Myers and Nada Saab analyze the region's political theater through translations of five plays by significant contemporary Levantine playwrights and critical essays about these works and the impact of these writers' oeuvres.