https://eyadhoussami.com eyadhoussami.com Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:12:13 +0000 https://eyadhoussami.com en https://eyadhoussami.com/Publications Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:34:39 +0000 eyadhoussami.com https://eyadhoussami.com/Publications Publications Books, etc. Unwiltable Spirit: Ecology, Agriculture, and Education in Modern Lebanon, forthcoming. “Infiltrating Ecology: The Rise of Industrial Agriculture in Modern Lebanon, 1950–1960.” PhD diss., University of Leeds,  2024. Editor, Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre. London: Pluto Press, 2012. Editor, Innana Mahkumun bi-l-ʾAmal: Kitabat fi al-Masrah. Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 2012. Arabic edition of Doomed by Hope. Editor-in-chief, project director, Marsah: Theatre Texts | marsah.org. Digital platform of international plays and commentary authored in and translated to Arabic. Beirut: Masrah Ensemble, 2019. Arabic-to-English translator, When the Library Was Stolen: On the Private Archive of Abd al-Rahman Munif. Berlin: Fehras Publishing Practices, 2017.Playwright, Mama Butterfly. In Rusted Radishes, 2013; Asymptote, 2015. Journals Issues of Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City, Arabic-English literary and academic journal. Print and digital. Beirut: Solidere, 2012–14. Editor-at-Large, “Forest.” Two scholarly papers, five articles, photo essay, and five translations, 2014. Managing Editor, “Fiction: Contemporary Arabic and Russian Pursuits.” Three stories, photo essay, and a novella, 2014. ———, “The Square.” Three scholarly papers, twelve articles, three visual essays, 2013. ———, “The Imagined.” Four scholarly papers, twelve articles, four visual essays, 2012. Chapters and Articles“A Gazelle Named Fluorine: On Industrial Agriculture and the University in 1950s Lebanon.” In Non-Western Approaches to the Environmental Humanities, edited by Gabriela Jarzębowska, Aleksandra Ross, and Krzysztof Skonieczny. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2025.“Book Review: Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race by Kathryn Yusoff.” Peer reviewed, Critical Inquiry, July 18, 2025. “Book Review: Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Andrea Duffy.” Peer reviewed, Jadaliyya, 2022. “Theatertreffen 2017: Brief Impressions.” In English, Arabic, and German, goethe.de, 2017. “The Youngsters Turning the Crisis in Lebanon into Living Theater.” NewsDeeply, 2016. “Nurturing Theater for Refugees in Lebanon.” Warscapes, 2016. “Book Review: Oh, Salaam! by Najwa Barakat.” Arablit, 2016. “Book Review: Vanished by Ahmed Masoud.” Full Stop, 2015. “Portal 9: A Belief in Bilingualism.” Interview, Arablit, 2013. “New Texts Out Now: On Doomed by Hope.” Interview, Jadaliyya, 2013. Introduction to Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre. London and Beirut: Pluto Press and Dar al-Adab, 2012. “Lebanon’s Debut in the World of Tomorrow.” Archival piece about the New York World’s Fair 1939. In Portal 9, “The Imagined.” Beirut: Solidere, 2012. “Going to the Theatre in Beirut.” In Beirut: A Guide to the City, edited by Carole Corm. Beirut: Darya Press, 2012. “Anger Management.” Long-form cultural reportage on theatre in a prison. In The Review of The National (UAE), 2009. “This ‘Tool We Dream Through’: Theater in NYC and the Arab Middle East.” Discussant, New York Theatre Review, 2009. “Global Consciousness and Cosmopolitanism in Appendice by Lina Saneh.” Peer-reviewed article, Ecumenica: Performance and Religion 1, no. 2 (October 2008): 11–21. “Book Review: Desiring Arabs by Joseph Massad.” Bidoun, 2008. Selected Arabic-to-English Translations “The Imam and the Giraffe” by Iman Mersal. The Derivative, 2021. “Bone Insurrection” by Rabih Mroué. The Derivative, 2021. “Animal Ceremonies for a Military Coup Triumph” by Asad Sary. Al-Madaniya, 2017. “Manifestos for a New Arab Theatre” by Saadallah Wannous. In World Theories of Theatre, edited by Glenn Odom. Routledge, 2017. https://eyadhoussami.com/Talks Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:12:13 +0000 eyadhoussami.com https://eyadhoussami.com/Talks Talks Conference and Program Organization Producer, “Doomed by Hope Theatre Series: Book Tour and Program,” talks with workshops, performances, and film screenings at Columbia, New York, Rowan, and Yale universities as well as Bard College, spring 2013. Co-Convener, “Arab Theatre Today,” Dancing on the Edge, two-day academic and cultural program in Amsterdam plus talks in Rotterdam and Utrecht, November 14–5, 2013. Co-Chair, “Transnational Tides and the Future of the Arab City: A Conference on Urban Sustainability,” Yale Arab Alumni Association, about 30 international speakers and more than 250 attendees, American University of Beirut, October 2–3, 2009. Invited Academic Talks “Bassatin Baanoub and Agriculture in Lebanon.” Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, October 17, 2023. “Doomed by Hope and Making Theatre.” The Saison Foundation, Tokyo, September 5, 2014. “Arab Theatre Today.” Alif Institute, Atlanta, May 15, 2013. Doomed by Hope book tour with presentations in various cities in the United States, The Netherlands, and Australia. Podcasts (as host on New Books Network: Environmental Studies) “Davide Rodogno, Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930,” September 2, 2023. “Munira Khayyat, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon,” December 18, 2022. “Max Ajl, A People’s Green New Deal,” July 5, 2022. “Adam M. Romero, Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture,” May 30, 2022. “Jo Handelsman, A World without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth beneath Our Feet,” March 7, 2022. “Kate Rigby, Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation,” December 10, 2021. Academic Conference Presentations “Unlearning Filāḥa: Knowing Agriscience in Modern Lebanon,” workshop presentation at École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, June 5, 2024. “A Gazelle Named Fluorine: On Industrial Agriculture and the University in 1950s Lebanon,” British Society for Middle East Studies: Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East, University of Exeter, July 3–5, 2023. “Eco-Epistemic Rupture in Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspective,” Non-Western Approaches to the Environmental Humanities, University of Warsaw, July 11, 2022. “Global Consciousness and Cosmopolitanism in Appendice by Lina Saneh,” International Federation for Theatre Research, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, July 14–9, 2008. “Reimagining Sovereignty on the Lebanese Stage,” International Federation for Theatre Research, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 10–4, 2007. “The Theatre Ensemble in Cairo and Beirut,” American Society for Theatre Research, Chicago, November 16–9, 2006. Other Conferences and Symposia Presenter, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Energy History Working Group), “Rivers, Rhythm, and Roots,” discussion of work-in-progress chapter from Unwiltable Spirit: Ecology, Agriculture, and Education in Modern Lebanon, February 13, 2026. Speaker, “Charting New Horizons for Education for Sustainable Development,” a conference of VolkswagenStiftung, German Commission for UNESCO, and German Rectors’ Conference, Hanover, November 19–21, 2025. Workshop Participant, Environmental Humanities Institute, Colby College, Maine, August 1–7, 2022. Panel Moderator, “This Is Not Lebanon,” Kuenstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, August 28–9, 2021. Guest Artist, “Deep Theatre History in Mesopotamia,” Working Group for a New Spirit | The Bushwick Starr, New York/Online, Autumn 2020. Panel Moderator, “Crossing Oceans,” Spielart Festival (performing arts), Munich, November 3–4, 2017. Panelist, “Artistic Mobility,” International Experimental Theatre Meeting, Beirut, October 6–9, 2016. Workshop Participant, “Future City: Doha,” expedition and forum on urbanism, Mathaf – Qatar Museums Authority, December 13–4, 2013. Presenter, “Shifting Sands” Symposium – Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, and Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, August 23–5, 2013. Panelist, “Notes towards an Art Scene: Art from the Imagined Arab World,” Cornerhouse, Manchester, April 13, 2012. Conference Presenter, “Masrah Ensemble and Doomed by Hope,” Sharjah Art Foundation March Meeting, Sharjah, March 15, 2011. Panelist, “Solo Performance and Arab American Identity,” Arab American National Museum, Diwan: Inaugural Forum on the Arts, 2006. https://eyadhoussami.com/Homepage Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:08:33 +0000 eyadhoussami.com https://eyadhoussami.com/Homepage Eyad Houssami is an international consultant, writer, and organization leader with expertise in development, agriculture, and research. From regional strategy to multimillion dollar fundraising and staff training, his skills run the gamut of institutional management. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, addressing topics such as the environment, urbanism, and migration. He lives in Berlin and has worked in English, Arabic, French, and German. > Contact Publications Talks Grants & Awards Press Credentials & Theatre