Previously, he was the national theatre critic at the Globe and Mail. He’s written extensively on film, TV and theatre for the Globe and covered American responses to the 2003 war in Iraq through assignments in Chicago and Detroit. Kamal has also worked as production editor of Report on Business magazine, was a theatre critic for Eye Weekly and freelanced as a feature writer for the National Post. Holding an English PhD from the University of Nottingham, Kamal has also taught Dramatic Literature in the Twentieth Century (1945-1999) and Theatre Criticism at the University of Waterloo as well as Criticism and Aesthetics at York University. He’s currently editing an anthology of plays from the Tarragon Theatre (Canadian Playwrights Press) and writing Intolerable, a family memoir, for HarperCollins Canada.