Based on Christy Lefteri's 2019 internationally bestselling novel and adapted for the stage by Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler, The Beekeeper of Aleppo tells the story of beekeeper Nuri and ...

Aspen Words on Thursday afternoon awarded Christy Lefteri, author of “The Beekeeper of Aleppo,” with the organization’s $35,000 literary prize. Lefteri was informed earlier today during an ...

But in The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Lefteri gives us a deeply researched, intimate look at the lives of one couple. Narrated by Nuri, the novel weaves together two time lines: one starting in Aleppo ...

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Christy Lefteri, Miranda Cromwell’s fast-moving, inventive production of The Beekeeper of Aleppo is epic in ambition and human in scale, writes Susan ...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a relevant, timely book, but impresses most as a compassionate and truthful character study. It’s a remarkable account of the dislocation endured by displaced persons ...

In the summer of 2016, writer Christy Lefteri travelled to Athens where she spent two months volunteering at a centre for women and children displaced by war. Each day she served tea and biscuits ...

Her winning novel, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, traces the path of a pair of refugees whose lives have been shattered by the years-long war in Syria, and who have little hope to guide them but a ...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo will return for a new tour next year. Produced in association with UK Productions, Miranda Cromwell directs Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of Christy Lefteri ...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo opens with a booming interrogation voice at Heathrow as the couple seek asylum. As Nuri, Clay takes on the role of a narrator with instant warmth – but desperation lingers at ...

The maudlin story sees beekeeper Nuri and his wife Afra set out from Aleppo after a devastating personal tragedy. Both carry emotional scars: he suffers from hallucinations and disorienting ...