Almonther Aldamani

AlMonther is set to participate in the Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation’s Artist in Residence program 2024, which will provide him with a space to write and attend collaborative workshops, both as a participant and a trainer. During the residency, AlMonther will write three short stories titled “Death and the Sun”, exploring themes of death and freedom. The stories blend storytelling and theatrical elements, with the aim of creating a literary work suitable for adaptation in cinema and theater. At the end of the artistic residency, AlMonther will present these stories in a reading, after which they will be ready for publication.

A performance that examines the interconnection between the concepts of death and freedom in Syrian thought and in Arab thought in general during the past ten years through the story of Issa, a young man whose loss of his father leads him to question the nature of death. His father’s death just as the revolution erupts in 2011 prompts a private journey in search for freedom which begins with the ghost of his father, the shadow of his mother and the dark corners of his home against the backdrop of the region’s search for freedom.