A theatre in Jenin offers a different kind of Palestinian resistance

The theatre was established in 2006 by Zakaria Zubeidi, a former militant, and Juliano Mer-Khamis, an actor born to a Jewish Israeli and a Christian Palestinian. Their vision was of cultural resistance. “We are like fighters, but our weapon is the theatre,” says Ranin Odeh who runs the theatre’s youth programmes. They put on everything from Shakespeare to plays written by those living in the camp.