RAFFI FEGHALI
Raffi Feghali is a theater maker, peacebuilding consultant, and trainer working mostly in Europe, USA, and the Middle East while being based between Amsterdam and Beirut.
As a theater maker, he draws on the meeting point of improvisational theater (improv) and storytelling (especially that rooted in the “hakawati” tradition) in order to inspire his performing, writing, directing/devising, radio dramas, sound design, and music making. He is a member of the Lincoln Theater Center Directors Lab 2018.
In peacebuilding, he uses listening exercises, the “Do No Harm” framework, and systems thinking in order to facilitate conflict analyses with communities and eventually strategize interventions accordingly – especially using Reflecting on Peace Practice methodologies. When he’s on the field, Raffi uses arts and especially theater as an approach and tool for peacebuilding. In that context, he’s an avid practitioner of Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theater, Masar Theater (which he has developed and is still developing), and expressive arts conflict transformation and peacebuilding methods and techniques in dialogues and workshops.
