I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother: a conversation with Amir Nizar Zuabi Amir Nizar Zuabi has been credited for his role in bringing Palestinian theatre to international attention with his hard-hitting and thought-provoking productions. However, his primary aim is simply to tell the stories of the Palestinian people, he explains to Belinda Otas . Amir Nizar Zuabi's current play, I am Yusuf And This Is My Brother, is playing to packed audiences at the Young Vic, one of London's most prestigious theatre venues. A compelling drama about dislocation and dispossession, it tells the story of Yusuf and his younger brother Ali. Yusuf is the eldest of the two, but is eccentric and has a rather child-like point of view on life. Ali, meanwhile, is in love with Nada, whose father refuses to allow them to get married, because his brother Yusuf is 'odd.' While at the heart of this play is the love between two individuals, the bigger picture tells the more painful story of the people of Palestine and the devastating effects the loss of their land had on them in 1948, and how this loss still reverberates today. Zuabi was raised in Nazareth, in the Galilee, where there is a huge population of Palestinians living within Israel. He says the aftermath of the 1948 partition is still visible when you take a look around, and is one of the factors which provoked the thoughts that led to his new play. "What triggered it, really was me