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About the book: Necessity of Terrorism: aggressively reviews the
political implication of the terminology and law creation; goes
back through history, using a Hegelian-Marxian reading of event by
power and violence all merging to recreate a case study of the
phenomenon and the Machiavellian usage of it in politics, war and
law. Revealing the role of terrorism from above and below in the
political and socio-economic development of state, law, culture,
and history.
Laughter Under the Bombs is intended both as a living testimony to
the horrors of surviving under war conditions and as a dramatherapy
handbook. The book documents day by day a dramtherapist's feelings
as the war takes hold in Lebanon in July 2006 and his amazingly
successful attempts to set up a safe space for displaced children
and teens to participate in drama workshops. These workshops are
aimed at helping the youth to deal with the horrors of war and find
a way to heal the mental and psychological wounds that mark them
long after any physical wounds. We all have heard much of the war
through the eyes of the media but this often removes us from the
humanity and the inhumane suffering involved on a day-to-day basis.
This book takes us through that suffering with individual stories
of pain and suffering, yet always emphasises the need to find time
and space for laughter to survive such horrors. These documented
workshops also resulted in the opening of a theatre production,
literally under the shelling, talking about their experiences as
they lived them. The internationally acclaimed play, also entitled
Laughter Under the Bombs, caught the world's attention in the midst
of the war. The show went on literally under the bombs, the area
was under threat - it was announced each night about two hours
before the show as planes dropped fliers to say that the area would
be targeted that night... and yet... the play opened to a full
house and the laughter drowned out the deafening noise of the
bombing right outside the doors of the theatre. Also included in
this unique publication is an essay and commentary by
dramatherapist and playwright JS Hartley whose theatre work and
publications have received international acclaim.
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