Just a few hours before Khawla Ibraheem’s A Knock on the Roof, a play about a woman living under Israeli occupation, opens to the press at the Royal Court, Donald Trump’s grotesque AI-generated video ...

Yet it’s impossible to watch Ms. Ibraheem’s heroine, Mariam, describe these actions — bombings, which grow ever closer and more frequent — without thinking of the cataclysmic events that have unfolded ...

In the one-woman performance, Ibraheem plays Mariam, a mother in Gaza who lives in an apartment building with her young son, Nour, and her own mother. Her husband, Omar, is away completing a ...

Ibraheem’s Mariam is a sharp, smart woman in jeans and a ponytail, stuck in a seventh-floor apartment in Gaza with her young son Nour and her widowed mother while bombardments encroach.

Mariam Ibraheem (Sudan): Known for her steadfast faith, Mariam faced a death sentence in Sudan for her Christian beliefs. Her remarkable story of courage and survival has inspired many worldwide.

Ibraheem’s character Mariam knows this, and as a response to the terrible anxieties of siege conditions, she begins to practice escape routes from the her apartment on the seventh floor of her ...

a young mother called Mariam repeatedly frets about how she will escape her flat, with belongings and six-year-old son, should that “knock” come. Ibraheem has charm and a stylishly dressed ...

“Sieged land besieges you.” Gazan mother Mariam confides in us in A Knock on the Roof. Her strained humanity is splayed front and centre of Khawla Ibraheem’s psychologically anguished one ...

Khawla Ibraheem’s gripping one-woman play portrays a mother in Gaza preparing for an Israeli bombing, showing the toll of life under siege ...

The well-written monologue’s repetitive motifs of packing and running propel both Mariam’s harried narrative and Ibraheem’s urgent performance. In depicting a seemingly frail young woman in ...

This doesn’t feel antisemitic: rather, it’s an examination of how any of us might react to a five-minute warning of impending extinction. Ibraheem’s Mariam is a sharp, smart woman in jeans and a ...