Ismail Khalidi’s “Dead Are My People” is an Examination of White Supremacy, Immigration and Assimilation in America, Then and Now
Palestinian playwright Ismail Khalidi’s new play takes the early wave of Syrian migration to America as the starting point in its exploration of race, privilege, assimilation, and white supremacy.
by Sarah Moawad
Dead are my people, gone are my people,
but I exist yet, lamenting them in my solitude…
My people and your people, my Syrian
Brother, are dead … What can be
Done for those who are dying? Our
Lamentations will not satisfy their
Hunger, and our tears will not quench
Their thirst; what can we do to save
Them between the iron paws of
Hunger?
– Kahlil G…
