There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn’t had time to eat yet. Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member ofthe border police outside her school. Rami’s thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half.īoth men have lost their daughters. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another – yet they exist worlds apart. He is a co-founder of the celebrated Théâtre du Rêve.Īs narrator: highlights include the audio editions of Edward Said’s Orientalism, chef Eric Ripert’s memoir 32 Yolks, and Samuel Beckett’s first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women.
Recent TV includes guest star turns on The Good Fight, Madam Secretary, The Code, and Elementary.Īs theater director: popular and critically-acclaimed stagings of Eugène Ionesco’s La Leçon and La Cantatrice Chauve, Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, Steven Berkoff’s Kvetch, and David Mamet’s Oleanna. On film, an award-winning performance in Lapse, also Morris County, El Gallo, and She Lights Up Well. He lives and works in New York City.Īs actor: Broadway, Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater) Off-Broadway, Right You Are! (National Actors Theatre), Power Strip (LCT3), Off-off, Medea (PTE), Phoenicia Flowers (Noor Theatre), and Nightclub (Ballet Hispánico) Regionally, Man and Superman, Hamlet, The Owl Answers, The Misanthrope, Othello, Three Sisters, A Doll House, Cloud 9, Tango Palace, Handler, The Bacchae, all in productions helmed by directors as idiosyncratic as Joseph Chaikin, Nancy Keystone, and Bartlett Sher. Peter Ganim is an American artist, descended of Lebanese, Syrian, and Slovak-Rusyn immigrants. He lives with his family in New York City, where he is the co-founder of the global nonprofit story exchange organization Narrative 4. A contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program. In addition, he has won awards in Italy, Germany, and China. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish association of artists Aosdána, and he has also received a Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres award from the French government. He has received many international honors, including the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and an Oscar nomination for his short film Everything in This Country Must.
His fiction has been published in over forty languages. Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections and the nonfiction book Letters to a Young Writer.
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