Ayham Abu Shaqra

Graduate of Damascus Higher Institute for Dramatic Studies and from the Communications Department at Damascus University in 2008, Ayham Abu Shaqra wrote his first play, Rami and Juliette, during a playwriting workshop organized in Beirut by Citizen Artists in 2013. He worked as a dramaturg on Find Me an Anchor Point by Zoukak Theater Group in Beirut in 2014. Ayham also joined the Contemporary Playwriting Program, organized by the British Council and The Royal Court Theatre in Beirut in 2014-2015. In 2014, Ayham joined Tandem, an exchange program between arts managers from the Arab region and Europe. As a cultural researcher, he has received two research grants from the Syria Trust for Development (2011) and Ettijahat-Independent Culture (2013), where he currently works as a Programs Manager. Ayham is currently in the Master's program in Arts Management at the Sorbonne in Paris.