Ameer Idreis
Ameer Idreis is a Palestinian Canadian writer, playwright, and urbanist.
Idreis's debut play Ships in the Night won the 2023 Hart House Theatre Playwriting Competition, 2024 Playwrights Guild of Canada Robert Beardsley Award, and is in development at Theatre Passe Muraille. Idreis previously participated in the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Playwrights Retreat and Paprika Festival, where he developed his second play The Walls Enclosing.
Idreis's contributions as an urbanist include his research on the Ontario Greenbelt, which informed both his Master’s thesis and a play, Lines in the Land. His academic work includes research on urbanism, politics, and planning at the University of Toronto and the, as well as academic articles on the role and impact of the Canadian Constitution on Indigenous and minority rights.
As a young novelist, Idreis published two books in his debut series The Ewald Series, with awards and recognition from the Canada-Arab Business Council, the Council of the Arab League, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Women's Press.
Works and Publications
Journal Articles
- Idreis, Ameer. “Section 35 and the Settler Constitutional Order’s Impediment to the Decolonization of Indigenous Rights.” Politicus 7, no. Special Issue II : 53–61. https://www.queenspoliticus.com/s/Special-Issue-December-Final.pdf#page=53.
- Idreis, Ameer. “The Charter’s Revolutionary Impact on Gay Rights in Canada.” Gettysburg Social Sciences Review 6, no. 1 : 4.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gssr/vol6/iss1/4/ .