Eyad Houssami makes theater. He is the founder and director of Masrah Ensemble in Lebanon, editor of Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theater (Pluto Press and Dar Al Adab, 2012), and a former editor of Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing about the City. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/eyad-houssami/rss en Refugee Voices Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:00:11 +0000 Eyad Houssami https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/01/the-youngsters-turning-the-crisis-in-lebanon-into-living-theatre https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/01/the-youngsters-turning-the-crisis-in-lebanon-into-living-theatre Theater director Eyad Houssami works with an ensemble of teenage refugees in Lebanon using theater to help them build a vision of a better life. But their efforts have been partly overshadowed by the mounting loss of life among young refugees in Lebanon.