Berkley Center

The campus community joined together for an evening with the “Syria: The Trojan Women” team. Their performance was originally planned as a re-interpretation of Euripides’ 2,000-year-old play, interwoven with Syrian refugee women’s personal experiences of the Syrian conflict. The women refugee performers’ visa applications were denied, so this event included documentary footage from the process; discussion with the women via live-stream from Jordan and leading Syrian director Omar Abu Saada; and discussion with policy experts and artists about the political realities in the region and the role of art as a humanizing force.

“Syria: The Trojan Women” was the first of four anchoring events in the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics’ “Myriad Voices: A Cross Cultural Performance Festival.”

The festival is presented in collaboration with Bridges of Understanding and Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Doyle Engaging Difference Program, and Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies.