This year, the designated production is Food and Fadwa, the final production of NYTW’s 2011-2012 season. Food and Fadwa is written by Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader, and will be directed by Shana Gold. Casebook sessions will include ...

Sometimes Haligonians act like jackasses to Muslim women who wear headscarves. Fadwa Awad has experienced it. But, heck, what does Awad know? Maybe, she says, they’re just jerks to every stranger they meet. "I got into an accident," says Awad.

To contact the reporters on this story: Saud Abu Ramadan in Jerusalem at sramadan@bloomberg.net; Fadwa Hodali in Jerusalem at fhodali@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net

In this context, there are a number of videos of the prominent Syrian actress turned activist Fadwa Soliman on YouTube. She belongs to the country's Alawite sect -- the minority religion to which most of the regime belongs. Last December, Al Jazeera ...

Aref Dalila and Najati Tayara have both been jailed for their opposition, while noted actress Fadwa Suleiman has led protests in the opposition stronghold of Homs. But the Alawite students who spoke in Damascus dismissed them as self-serving ...

To contact the reporter on this story: Fadwa Hodali in Jerusalem at fhodali@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Gwen Ackerman at gackerman@bloomberg.net

Some prominent Alawite political activists have taken a stand against Assad. Aref Dalila and Najati Tayara have both been jailed for their opposition, while noted actress Fadwa Suleiman has led protests in the opposition stronghold of Homs. But the Alawite ...

Since the revolution began, more women have become focal points for the protest movement, including actresses May Skaf, who was one of the first artists to participate in protests and to be arrested, and Fadwa Suleiman, who has been chanting defiantly from ...