Change for Equality: During the last days of August and the first weeks of September, the Foratt Theatre in Malmo, Sweden, was host to women from Iraq, Iran, and Egypt who presented the play Nine Parts of Desire. The play, written by US-Iraqi playwright Heather Raffo, concerns the destinies of nine Iraqi women living in the shadow of war.
The women - a street vendor, a painter, a doctor, an exiled political activist, a witness to a death, one mourning the dead - through a series of (...)