Title, Premiere and Location
Ghurba
September 9 - 26, 1993
Studio 1340, Macgowan Hall, UCLA
Written By
Written by Shishir Kurup
Synopsis
GHURBA is a play by Shishir Kurup based on stories of the Arab experience in Los Angeles, told through interviews with local residents citywide; an event of the Los Angeles Festival. Arab-Americans, Los Angeles (population: 250,000) 
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Staff
Sandy Abbott - Dresser
Hana'a Al Wardi - Visual Art Display
John Amirkhan - Electrician
Gregor Aslanian - Galabiah Builder
Saleem Azzouqa - Community Liaison/Co-choreographer
Jay Buol - Intern
Benjah Cobb - Technical Assistant
Michael Cousins - Carpenter
Ed DeShae - UCLA Facility Manager
Susan Doepner - Costume Designer
Raed Elayoi - Projectionist
Chris Galaske - Carpenter
Michael Garrett - Projectionist
Leon Garrett II - Sound Board Operator
Lisa Gemmaway - Dresser
Stephen Gutwillig - Executive Producer
Jennifer Hutchinson - Intern
Lynn Jeffries - Co-Set Designer
Shishir Kurup - Director
Marty Langley - Master Electrician / Light Board Operator
Page Leong - Assistant Director/Choregrapher/Dramaturg
David Markowitz - Music Director/Composer
Angela Massel - Assistant Stage Manager
Heather Mathis - Assistant to the Producer
Linda Million - Fluka Seamstress
Assem Omar - Graphic Designer
Christian Osborne - Sound Designer/Composer
Carol Quinn - Intern
Jill Ragaway - Stage Manager
Sam Sako - Production Photographer
Douglas D. Smith - Co-Set Designer/Lighting Designer/Tech. Director
Maggie Stewart - Props Mistress/Asst. to the Tech Director
Leslie Tamaribuchi - Producer
Kimberly Zerbey - Intern
Cast
| Ismael Kanater | Old Man, Taleb, Hazin |
| Ahmed Ahmed | Boy, Abdallah, Jenin |
| Benajah Cobb | Vendor |
| Rana Sallakian | Jenin |
| Danielle Sallakian | Singing Woman, Wailer |
| Saleem Azzouqa | Singing Man, Wailer |
| Tamadhur Al Aqeel | Sensual Woman, Jenin |
| Pauline Guld | Isabelle, Wailer |
| Ashby Semple | Intellectual Woman |
| George Haddad | The Comic, Jenin |
| Page Leong | Tattered Woman |
| Samira Haddad | Hajar Jenin |
| Nabil E. Nassar | Abbas, Jenin |
| Melisse Bouziane | Rabiya |
| Musicians | Musicians |
| George Haddad | Oud |
| David Markowitz | Violin, Keyboards, Sax |
| Arlita Stephens Roghani | Tabla, Dumbek, Tar |
| Fred Samia | Oud |
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