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Beirut – When Zeina Daccache first set foot in Beirut’s Oum el-Nour drug rehabilitation centre 15 years ago, most of the guests were middle-aged former fighters who participated in Lebanon’s civil war and still had vivid memories of it.

She approached them with an unusual proposal: to make theatre.

Zeina Daccache is an actress, director, therapist and the founder of “Catharsis”, the Lebanese Center for Drama Therapy.

Activist and director Zeina Daccache finds herself, after13 years of voluntary imprisonment in Lebanese prisons (where she conducted drama.

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Daccache has since become known as a pioneer of drama therapy throughout the Arab world, producing the internationally acclaimed plays 12 Angry Lebanese (2009) and Scheherazade in Baabda (2012).

Her latest play, titled Johar … Up in the Air was performed in Lebanon’s notoriously tough Roumieh prison throughout June, and is part of a broader EU-funded project pushing to reform the country’s penal system.

For Daccache, it is all part of her larger goal to use theatre as a tool to spur social change.

“I loved the idea that non-actors could be actors, and I wanted to do theatre for a cause,” Daccache told Al Jazeera.

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