(Im)possibilities of Integration in Ashtar, REACT and Street Theatre: the Syrian Condition

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Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

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Globalization is a tendency towards the policy and practice of the melting pot. It seriously aims at Arab cultures in the first place. A cultural hybrid, as well as his existence, is largely Platonic under the hegemony of globalization. It is not hyperbolic to claim that the ongoing Syrian situation is one direct effect of the incursion of globalization policies that dominated the world. The United States of America is the sole superpower after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern socialist camp. A process of re-ordering the Middle East has been activated on the part of this new world superpower.
Accordingly, this paper examines the possibility of continuity of local and national identity when Syrian refugees are asking asylum in European countries through the study of three performances that showed practices of identity performance; through "The Syrian Monologues" (2016), The REACT, Rotterdam Theatre 's project (2017), to integrate refugees in The Netherlands and "Refugees", a street theatre performance in Athens (2018).

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