Read Board President Denmo Ibrahim's Welcome Speech at Our 2026 Convening

American Theatre Magazine publishes the full text with a moving intro by Torange Yeghiazarian.

MENA Theater Makers: We Can Make the Home We’ve Been Looking For

American Theatre Magazine published the full text of Board President Denmo Ibrahim’s welcome speech at our 2026 Fall Convening — with an intro by MENATMA Board Member and Golden Thread Productions Founding Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian.

“I wonder if our generation is being asked to do something different. To dismantle some of those binaries. To find the courage to live in the spaces between. To become comfortable with discomfort, of not fitting neatly into one category or another. To recognize that transition itself can be a place to stand on one’s own two feet.”

MENA Theater Makers Alliance 2026 Fall Convening took place in San Francisco on October 23-25, 2026. “Protecting Dissent: Celebrating Voices from the Middle East and North Africa” was co-produced by MENA Theater Makers Alliance, Golden Thread Productions, and Art2Action.

Read the full text on here.

(Photo by Jared Randolph)