Sulayman Al-Bassam

Sulayman Al-Bassam is a Kuwaiti-British playwright, theatre director, and founder of Zaoum Theatre Company in London (1996-2001) and its Arabic arm, Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre in Kuwait (2002). Of mixed Anglo-Arab heritage, he leads SABAB Theatre, performing at prestigious venues worldwide including the Royal Shakespeare Company, BAM in New York, and La Comédie Française, with works published by Methuen/Bloomsbury. His oeuvre explores identity, history, and language through poetic density and radical adaptations, and he founded FIKAR, a research space on Failaka Island focused on post-petroleum strategies; he lives between Kuwait and Paris.[1][2][3][5][6]