{"id":30,"name":"Eyad Houssami","url":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/author\/shelby\/ehoussami","description":"Eyad Houssami makes and writes about theater. He is the founding director of Masrah Ensemble, a nonprofit theater organization in Lebanon, and the editor of English and Arabic editions of Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto Press and Dar Al Adab 2012). He has performed in dead Byzantine cities in Syria and produced a monodrama in a 13th century mansion only to be banned from performing. His play Mama Butterfly received a staged reading at Between the Seas festival (New York, 2010). He has presented at conferences in South Africa and Korea and published in peer-reviewed journals. He served as president of the Yale Arab Alumni Association (YAAA) and co-chaired YAAA's international urban sustainability conference at the American University of Beirut (2009). Mr. Houssami studied theatre at Yale University.","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/author\/ehoussami\/","slug":"ehoussami","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c89cc4d09d9d8eaa84e9712212cc966d2b05d1aea2f63f238cc65da58f9374c8?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c89cc4d09d9d8eaa84e9712212cc966d2b05d1aea2f63f238cc65da58f9374c8?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c89cc4d09d9d8eaa84e9712212cc966d2b05d1aea2f63f238cc65da58f9374c8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c89cc4d09d9d8eaa84e9712212cc966d2b05d1aea2f63f238cc65da58f9374c8?s=128&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}