Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: إسماعيل خالدي; born 1982) is a Palestinian/Lebanese American playwright, screenwriter and theater director whose work tackles the history of Palestine and the modern Middle East, as well as wider themes of race, colonialism, displacement and war.
"[4] His first production (co-created with Bassam Jarbawi) Truth Serum Blues,[5][6] debuted in 2005 at the Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis where he was also an actor and writer in residence.
Khalidi has worked as an actor, dramaturg, playwright and director in the United States, Latin America and the Middle East.
Khalidi has published works of poetry in Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America, and has written for The Nation, Remezcla, American Theatre Magazine, Guernica , The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Nation, Times Union (Albany), The Daily Beast, and The Electronic Intifada, The Kenyon Review and Al Jazeera.
[1][3] Khalidi co-edited, along with Naomi Wallace, an anthology entitled Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora (Theatre Communications Group, 2015).