ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights certain challenges that arise around issues of censorship when teaching African American drama within a Muslim-Arabic cultural context. Creativity is required when censoring texts while retaining context, successfully navigating around taboo topics, avoiding cultural misunderstandings, and developing a pedagogy that is balanced between Western freedom of expression and Middle Eastern conservatism. This chapter discusses student encounters with August Wilson’s Piano Lesson (1987), Lynn Nottage’s POOF! (1995), and Georgia Douglas Johnson’s Safe (1929).
