Alrahallah is an Arabic word meaning traveler.

The Alrahallah Theater on Saalestraße 26 is a space and a garden. It is a place where many things happen. People meet, show, watch, stand still, move. Sometimes the activity echoes through the streets, sometimes it bounces around a room. It can be loud and cheerful or quiet and vulnerable or frantic and full of fear. Everyone can draw from it what they want.

Alrahallah Theater Berlin e.V. was founded in 2020 by Maher Draidi and is the successor to Travellers 3 Theatre Group, also founded in Berlin in 2014. He previously gained extensive experience in experimental and intercultural theater in Palestine and Italy and founded a theater group in Arezzo (Italy).

He is closely associated with the beginnings of experimental theater in Ramallah, Palestine, which can be traced back to director Jacoub Ismael. The president of Alrahallah Theater, Maher Draidi, studied and worked with this theater from 2000 to 2004 and was strongly influenced by its philosophy and techniques.

When he moved to Italy, he took it back and founded “Il Laboratorio del Teatro dei Viaggiatori 2” in Arezzo, which existed from 2006 to 2013 and during this time made more than 10 intercultural theater productions and 200 visual and intercultural theater and professional theater arts workshops.

In 2014, Draidi moved to Berlin and founded a third workshop called “Travellers 3 Theatre Group.” The group, whose members represent seven different nationalities (Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Germany, Italy, France and Poland), has created more than five cross-cultural productions with migrants. In 2018, it also participated in the international project “Sharing Care” in San Giorgio, Italy through Erasmus+. In 2019, the group worked with more than 700 people, 90 percent of them migrants living in Berlin. In 2020, Travellers 3 Theatre Group merged with Alrahallah Theater Berlin Verein.