Ammar Sultan Al-Maani is a theatre PhD student at Massey University  [Ed. update: completed in 2022]. He moved from Jordan to New Zealand to pursue his doctoral project on Postcolonial Arab Theatre of Trauma and Resistance. He studied arts in English at the Hashemite University and University of North Florida and proceeded to work in a dynamic academic and teaching environment, linking students with English and Arab cultures, languages, and arts.