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Lives I could not have led.(Palestinian theatre artists working under Israeli occupation)(Column)

American Theatre,  July, 2003  by Shamieh, Betty

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When Naomi Wallace asked me to go with a delegation of American playwrights to meet with Palestinian theatre artists living and working under Israeli occupation--the longest military occupation of one people by another in modern history--my first reaction was "Hell, no!"

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I did not want to confront what my life could have been like if my parents had not immigrated to America in the 1960s. It's the luck of the draw that I was born in San Francisco rather than Ramallah, where my ancestors founded a small Christian village over 400 years ago. I was born after Israel ...

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