Laughter Under the Bombs is intended both as a living testimony to the horrors of surviving under war conditions and as a dramatherapy handbook. The book documents day by day a dramtherapist's feelings as the war takes hold in Lebanon in July 2006 and his amazingly successful attempts to set up a safe space for displaced children and teens to participate in drama workshops. These workshops are aimed at helping the youth to deal with the horrors of war and find a way to heal the mental and psychological wounds that mark them long after any physical wounds. We all have heard much of the war...