25 Facts About Karim Alrawi

Karim Alrawi is a writer born in Alexandria, Egypt.

Karim Alrawi has taught at universities in the UK, Egypt, US and Canada.

Karim Alrawi was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa and taught creative writing at the university's International Writing Program.

Karim Alrawi is a long-time peace activist and proponent of a Palestinian state.

Karim Alrawi was a keynote speaker, in 1982, at the founding conference of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in London.

Karim Alrawi was a delegate to Madrid+15 conference in 2007 to develop a framework for a two-state solution, laying the groundwork for the Annapolis Conference between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Karim Alrawi was followed in the position by novelist Gamal El-Ghitani.

Karim Alrawi is a graduate of University College London, the University of Manchester and the University of British Columbia.

Karim Alrawi served on the Arts Council of Great Britain's Drama Panel and the Greater London Arts Council.

Karim Alrawi was later arrested and detained for interrogation by Egyptian State Security for his work with the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights.

Karim Alrawi went to the United States as a Fulbright International Scholar where he had residencies at a number of theatres including Meadow Brook Theatre in Michigan, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kennedy Centre, Washington DC, and LaMama, New York.

Karim Alrawi has written and edited several international publications and was Editor in Chief of ARABICA magazine, the leading nationally distributed Arab-American publication with an independently certified readership of over 100,000 readers.

Karim Alrawi supervised EU, US and Canadian government funded media training programs in North Africa and South Asia.

Karim Alrawi's fiction, plays and productions have received several awards including:.

Karim Alrawi has received writer's awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain and from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Theatres Karim Alrawi wrote plays for included Royal Court Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Joint Stock, The Old Red Lion Theatre, Soho Theatre, M6 Theatre, Half Moon Theatre, Newcastle Playhouse, the Old Vic Theatre, London, Liverpool Playhouse, Theatre Royal, York, and the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

In Egypt, Karim Alrawi taught at the theatre department of the American University in Cairo.

Also, Karim Alrawi wrote four stage plays in Arabic two of which were staged at the Wallace Theatre.

Karim Alrawi was resident writer at a number of institutions, including Iowa State University, Pennsylvania State University, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Oakland University and at Meadow Brook Theatre in Michigan.

Karim Alrawi taught playwriting at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and later was an International Writing Fellow at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where he taught creative writing and global literature courses for the Between the Lines program.

Karim Alrawi's plays for MBT included A Gift of Glory, about the Mexican artist Diego Rivera and the Ford family; Chagall's Arabian Nights, a story of Marc Chagall's painting of the Arabian Nights and Killing Time, a play about physician assisted suicide.

Karim Alrawi wrote plays that toured local schools and ran theatre workshops for disadvantaged children in South-East Michigan.

Karim Alrawi has written two children's picture books: The Girl Who Lost Her Smile and The Mouse Who Saved Egypt.

Karim Alrawi authored a children's literary cookbook: Arab Fairytale Feast that was shortlisted for the Forest of Reading Children's Books Awards, 2023.

Karim Alrawi has written for BBC radio and television, as well as for Channel 4 television in the UK.