Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts
Political Theatre in Syria, 1968 to the Present
Edward Ziter is Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at New York University. His current project is a book manuscript: Political Theatre in Syria, 1967-2011: Rehearsing Civil Society. He is the author of The Orient on the Victorian Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and the following book chapters: “Refugees on the Syrian Stage”, in Doomed by Hope, Essays on the Theatre. Eds. Eyad Houssami and Maria Ellias. Beirut: Dar al Saqi Forthcoming; “No Grave in the Earth: Antigone’s Emigration and Arab Circulations,” Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage. Eds. Erin Mee and Helene Foley. London: Oxford University Press, 2011; and “Williams Charles Macready,” Great Shakespeareans Vol. 5. Ed Richard Schoch. New York: Continuum, 2011.