In Khawla Ibraheem’s ‘A Knock on the Roof,’ Humor Is a Constant Salve Amid the Horrors of War
The Syrian-Palestinian theater artist based in the Golan Heights reminds us how everyday life, with its little pleasures and petty irritations, continues even in times of catastrophe.

Sometimes a tragedy involving a large number of victims can be made to seem more accessible by scaling it down to a single person — or a single actor, in the case of “A Knock on the Roof,” a blistering, roughly 80-minute play written and performed by a Syrian-Palestinian theater artist based in the Golan Heights, Khawla Ibraheem.
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