Decolonizing the Narrative of Troy: {i}The Trojan Women{/i} as a Textual Template for Drama Therapy and Community Engagement with Syrian Refugees

Myla Skeiker, Fadi Skeiker

Decolonizing the Narrative of Troy: The Trojan Women as a Textual Template for Drama Therapy and Community Engagement with Syrian Refugees

Myla Skeiker, Fadi Skeiker

From Engaging with Troy: Early Modern and Contemporary Scenes (2026), pp. 193-206, doi:10.59860/t.c380e5b

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Homer (c. 850 BCE?), Greek poet

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Abstract. Euripides’ The Trojan Women is reinvented in the tragedies of each generation’s refugees. In the 2010s, the Trojan Women Project, which took its name from the play, used drama and documentary as therapy for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Syria: Trojan Women is the story of one such group as they present an Arabic translation of Euripides. Made stateless, and despite their success refused performance visas to the US, these were women with as good a claim as any to be the descendants of Troy.

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