[citation needed] Liwaa Yazji spent her early childhood years in Moscow, where her parents were completing their academic studies.

The family returned to Syria in the early 1980s and stayed in the city of Aleppo for some years, before they moved to Damascus, where she finished her elementary, preparatory and secondary schooling.

If I decide to stop writing, then the enemy – or the dictatorship, shall we say – succeeds in making me shut up, whether I am inside or outside the country, [...] So it’s kind of dealing with your own censorship and fears.Here in the park This was her first play, published in May 2012, although it was originally written between 2007 and 2009.

[8] The film takes the viewer on a surreal journey through the lives of nine individuals who are either internally displaced in Syria or seeking refuge in Lebanon.

[13][14] Translated into English in 2017 by Katharine Halls[15] and after a first staged reading during the event "Told From the Inside" at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, it premiered in the same venue in December 2017.

[16] Goats was also part of PEN World Voices: International Play Festival 2018, New York, and a staged reading in Arabic was produced at the Khashabi Theatre in Haifa, in February 2019.

A play on the debate of giving birth under conditions of violence, commissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

These cultural leaders included artists, intellectuals, journalists, researchers, software technicians, and public speakers.

Taking place in The Netherlands they publicly presented a multi-dimensional space inspired and informed by the Syrian Kashash (trans.

Yazji participated with her lyrical poem Maya`s Story, set to music by British composer Sandy Nuttgens, with images by Joe Magee and performed by Becky Banatvala.