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That Disease: Performing Cancer in the Arab World
Outputs by Abir Hamdar
Articles & Book Chapters
2019 '"Voice of Resistance": Rim Banna, Cancer, and Palestine's Body Politic', Medical Humanities (online first).
2019 'Staging Silence: Arab Women's Cancer Experience', Studies in Theatre and Performance (online first).
2019 'Between Representation and Reality: Disabled Bodies in Arabic Literature', International Journal of Middle East Studies, 51, pp. 127-130.
2018 'The Syrian Corpse: The Politics of Dignity in Visual and Media Representations of the Syrian Revolution', Journal for Cultural Research, 22, pp. 73-89.
Ethnodramas
2020 Hair Talk. First performance: 4 February 2020, NKBCI, Beirut, Lebanon.
2017 I am Waiting for You. First performance: 21 July 2017, Madina Theatre, Beirut, Lebanon.
Papers
17 January 2019
Dr Abir Hamdar presents on her Performing Cancer project at the Exploring the Borderlands: Between Performance Arts, Political Theatre and Academic Research conference, University of Birmingham, 17-18 January 2019.
1 June 2018
Dr Abir Hamdar presents paper 'Staging Silence: Arab Women's Cancer in Wasafuli al-Sabr' at the Art, Materiality and Representation conference (British Museum and SOAS, London, 1-3 June 2018). See abstracts.
Public Engagement, Impact, Outreach
4-7 February 2020
Dr Abir Hamdar’s play ‘I am Waiting For You’ is ewxhibited as a video installation, titled ‘Hair Talk’, at the Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute (NKBCI) of the American University of Beirut Medical Centre to mark World Cancer Day (4 Feb).
10 September 2019
Dr Abir Hamdar is appointed Creative Consultant to the Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute (NKBCI) of the American University of Beirut Medical Centre to facilitate and support the Institute's Arts-in-Health programme.
2 December 2018
Dr Abir Hamdar 's play Wasafuli al-Sabr [I am Waiting for You], directed by Lina Abyad, was performed in Nabatiyeh, South Lebanon, hosted by the Nabih Berri Government University Hospital, and also in Sanayeh House, Beirut.
10 November 2018
Film I am waiting for you (by Paloma Yanez Serrano and Benjamin Llorens Rocamora of The Big Tree Collective), which focuses on Abir Hamdar's play as it is premiered in Beirut, is featured at the Language and Identity: Explorations Through Film mini festival (screenings and discussion with filmmakers), the former Cornerhouse, Manchester.
5 November 2018
Dr Abir Hamdar presents her Performing Arab Cancer project at the New Directions in Qualitative Health Research: From Patient Experiences to Participatory Action Research Conference, organised by DIPEx International at the University Medical Center in Groningen, Netherlands. A screening of her short film 'I am Waiting for You' (dir. Soha Choucair & Lina Abyad) follows the presentation.
12 July 2018
Dr Abir Hamdar is awarded the Durham University Impact Award for her project Performing Cancer in the Middle East based around the performance of her play 'I am waiting for you' (وصÙولي الصبر).
8 February 2018
Dr Abir Hamdar’s play Wasafuli al-Sabr ( I am waiting for you; وصÙولي الصبر) I sperformed as opening event of BBCC-6: Annual Beirut Breast Cancer Conference (NKBCI, AUBM, Saab Medical Library), marking World Cancer Day.
29 September - 8 October 2017
Dr Abir Hamdar co-curates What's Left? A Century in Revolution, a special programme of screenings, talks and discussion at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, hosting the sessions on 4 and 5 October dedicated to the files Silvered Water and The Trials of Spring respectively.
8 August 2017
'I am waiting for you', the play by Abir Hamdar on Arab women's experiences of cancer, is performed at the LAU Medical Centre - Rizk Hospital. This is the first time that adult theatre goes to a hospital in the region.
21-30 July 2017
'I am waiting for you', a play on Arab women's experiences of cancer, written by Abir Hamdar and based on interviews with female cancer patients, is performed at the Madina Theater in Beirut, Lebanon. See further details.