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Return to Haifa - عائدٌ إلى حيفا
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Babel Theater - مسرح بابل
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Return to Haifa - عائدٌ إلى حيفا
Theater Play


Ghassan Kanfani Cultural Foundation presents
Return to Haifa

by Ghassan Kanafani
Adapted and directed by Lina Abyad

Babel Theater, Marignan Center, Hamra, Beirut
Dates: June 6,7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 - 2013
At 8:30 pm
Matinees June 8th and 9th at 5:00 PM
Matinees June 15th and 16th at 5:00 PM

Ticket prices:  30,000L.L, 20,000L.L. and 15,000L.L.
For Reservations, please call 76 64 32 95


Actors - in alphabetical order -
Sameera Al Asir
Sandy Chamooun
Ghannam Saber Ghannam
Hani Al Hindi
Aliya Khalidi
Azzam Mostafa
Hussein Nakhal
Raeda Taha

Crew
Adaptation, Direction & Set Design           Lina Abyad
Assistant Director Amahl Khouri
Producer           Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation
Executive Producer           Ghina Sibaii
Costume Designer           Claire Mishref
Lighting Designer           Alaa Minawi 
Print & poster design           Dima Tannir
Photography           Dalia Khamissy

                              

Synopsis of the play

April 21st 1948, during the Zionist attack on Palestinian cities, towns and villages, Safiyya and Said, a young Palestinian couple, are forced to leave their city, Haifa. The eviction is so brutal that they are not able to go back and get their infant son, still at home.
Twenty years later, right after the 1967 war, when Israel allows the expelled Palestinians to visit their former homes, Said and Safiyya return to Haifa to discover that their home is still intact. 
Miriam, an Israeli of Polish origin is living there, along with her son Dov. 
Dov is none other than Said and Safiyya’s son, Khaldun, whom they were forced to leave behind in 1948.

ملخص المسرحية
يجبر الزوجين الشابين الفلسطينيين، صفية وسعيد، أثناء الهجوم الصهيوني على المدن، والبلدات والقرى الفلسطينية في 21 نيسان 1948، على مغادرة مدينتهم حيفا. ونتيجة للوحشية التي أخليت بها المدينة لم يستطيعا العودة لإحضار إبنهما الرضيع الذي كان ما يزال في المنزل.
يكتشف سعيد وصفية عند زيارتهم لحيفا بعد مرور 20 عاما، ومباشرة بعد حرب 1967، في الوقت الذي سمحت فيه إسرائيل للاجئين الفلسطينيين بزيارة بيوتهم السابقة، بأن منزلهم ما زال على حاله، وتقطنه إسرائيلية من أصول بولندية تدعى ميريام برفقة إبنها دوف.
لم يكن دوف سوى خلدون، الرضيع الذي أجبر صفية وسعيد على تركه في حيفا عام 1948.

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