‘Where Can I Find Someone Like You Ali?’ Play by Raeda Taha

“Where can I find someone like you Ali?” is a play written and performed by Raeda Taha and directed by Lina Abyad.

Ali Taha was a hijacker on Sabena Flight Sabena Flight 571 in 1972. He was a father, a husband and a brother. When he left, the women in his life contined to live through him.

Raeda Taha, the author of the play, is Ali’s eldest daughter. She opens up the family’s intimate archives to shatter the halo of the “martyr” label and its stereotypes, stripping away the myths of heroism associated with it. In the process and in painful candor, she faces the reality of being a victim of loss, and of the absence of a father who can never be replaced, not even by Yasser Arafat himself.

Does Raeda go on stage to hold Ali accountable? She strips him and herself bare, speaking in her voice, and in that of her mother and of aunt. She turns the women into real-life heroines, and turns Ali Taha the martyr-hero, into a father, a mere father.

Cost
For Non-Students: 30,000 LL
For Students: 15,000 LL

Tickets on sale at Antoine Bookshop.

For more information
78.835.497