Or how a protest can be performative and a performance a protest. Nora Amin is an Egyptian writer, performer, theater director and choreographer. In addition to the Lamusica Independent Theater Group, for which she has directed 35 productions, Nora Amin is also the founder of the National Egyptian Project for Theater of the Oppressed and its Arab Network. The author of the first Arabic book on theater and human rights, as well as several novels, Nora Amin has recently written "Migrating the Feminine" in English, published by 60pages Berlin, a network of thinkers and artists creating an alternative journalism. "Migrating the Feminine" will be launched in German at Matthes & Seitz Publishing house in autumn 2017. In our conversation, Nora Amin speaks about her work in the Theater of the Oppressed in Egypt during the revolutionary period from January 2011 through 2013. The music extracts in the program are by Luna Stage, an excerpt of "The Other Body" directed by Jacob Stage.
