Mohammad Al Attar is a Syrian playwright and essayist. At university, he completed a degree in English literature, followed by a degree in Theatre Studies from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, Damascus. He then completed an MA in Applied Theatre at London’s Goldsmiths University. His work unfolds at the threshold between fiction and documentation. His plays are translated into many languages and staged worldwide, including at Volksbühne Berlin, HKW Berlin, Avignon Festival, Festival d’Automne Paris, the Lincoln Center in New York, Kunsten Festival in Brussels, the Royal Court Theatre in London, Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia and Ruhrtriennale in Germany, among others. His plays include Withdrawal, Could You Please Look into the Camera?, Antigone of Shatila, While I Was Waiting, Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence, Iphigenia, The Factory, Damascus 2045, Yesterday’s Encounter and the contemporary opera Searching for Zenobia.

Research Project at EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities":

The Final Days of Alois Brunner (a theatrical work-in-progress)