Country: Syria
Title: “Mihbaj”
Playwright: Riad Ismet
Director: Riad Ismet
Partner: Columbia College Chicago
Synopsis: A gripping play that sheds light on the Syrian tragedy: Near the areas occupied by ISIS in northern Syria, a widow struggles to to keep her three sons together, who represent three conflicting points of view, while an international proxy war spreads sectarianism, extremism and hatred in a country that was once a harmonic grinder of all religious ethnicities, like a Mihbaj which prepares coffee beans for hospitality.
Playwright: Riad Ismet