Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in the latest exchange for Israeli hostages held in Gaza, part of a ...

Over the years he became iconic for his work not just as a resistance fighter but through his involvement in Jenin's Freedom Theatre, a world-famous cultural centre in the city's refugee camp.

He and the five other escapees were recaptured later. In 2006, Zubeidi established The Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp – his home in the north of the occupied West Bank – to promote ...

In a 2002 raid, the Israeli army destroyed the community playhouse, which was later rebuilt and renamed the Freedom Theatre. After the 2007 amnesty, Zubeidi returned to Jenin and was involved again ...

After the intifada in 2006, Zubeidi co-founded a theater in his hometown of Jenin refugee camp, a hotbed of Palestinian militancy, to promote what he described as cultural resistance to Israel. Even ...

10 years ago, we had The Freedom Theatre (TFT) from Jenin in Palestine touring 11 Indian cities with a joint production that they had created with India’s Jana Natya Manch. How can such ...

He helped direct the Freedom Theater, a community cultural center in the hardscrabble Jenin refugee camp, which was founded by Palestinians displaced by the 1948 wars surrounding Israel’s ...

Even today, the Freedom Theater in Jenin refugee camp puts on everything from Shakespeare to stand-up comedy to plays written by residents. In 2019, after Zubeidi had already served years in ...

After the second intifada in 2006, he co-founded a theater in Jenin to promote what he described as cultural resistance to Israel. The Freedom Theater has put on everything from Shakespeare to ...