Ismail Khalidi is an award-winning playwright. His plays include Tennis in Nablus, which premiered at Atlanta’s Alliance Theater in 2010, Truth Serum Blues (Pangea World Theatre) and Final Status. He is on the board of the Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre and currently resides in Brooklyn.
This brilliant activist and film and theater director, recently murdered in Jenin, represented the best of what it means to be Palestinian and to be Jewish.