Khawla Ibrahim
Artist
Khawla Ibraheem is a playwright, actor , and director based in Majdal Shams, in the occupied Golan Heights. She is a regular at many theatres in Palestine, including El Hakawati (the Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem) The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, and Al Jawal Theatre in Sakhnin. Ibraheem’s recent project, London Jenin, was a collaboration with The Freedom Theatre for which she won Best Director and Best Script at the Palestinian National Theatre Festival.
Outside of Palestine, she has collaborated with many theatres and institutions, including as a fellow at Macdowell and as an artist-in-residence at the Sundance Theatre Lab, where she met longtime collaborator, director Oliver Butler. Ibraheem was also commissioned by Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies as part of a series of new radio plays written by Palestinian playwrights.
