• BBC Arts / BBC Studios
Casting Consultant: Civilisations: Rise and Fall, BBC Two
Research Consultant: Milton's Heaven and Hell, BBC Two (presented by Armando Iannucci)
• BBC Audio / BBC Radio
'Drama on 3', BBC Radio 3
'Music Planet', BBC Radio 3
'Words and Music' (on "Egypt" and on "John Milton"), BBC Radio 3
• BBC Drama
Consultant: Father Brown, BBC One (for an episode set in Egypt)
• ITN Productions
Research Consultant: The Real Lawrence of Arabia, Channel 5
• Woodcut Media
Field Producer & Location Consultant: The Race for Ancient Egypt, Channel 4
CULTURAL SECTOR
• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
On the redesign of the main gallery
• Birmingham Museums Trust
On the reinterpretation of collections
• British Muslim Heritage Centre
Various projects as Academic Advisor
• Library of Birmingham
Advocacy and Engagement consultant, Everything to Everybody project
• Royal Shakespeare Company
Various projects (ongoing)
• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Various projects (ongoing)
• Shakespeare Institute / University of Birmingham
Advocacy and Engagement consultant, Everything to Everybody project
• Soul City Arts
Partnership instigation with University of Birmingham
GOVERNMENT
• Birmingham City Council
Advocacy and Engagement consultant, Everything to Everybody project
• British Armed Forces
Training for North West Armed Forces
• Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports
Various projects (ongoing)
• UK Home Office
The Police Uplift Programme
SELECTED TESTIMONIALS
Erica Whyman OBE, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company:
“I have long been a serious fan
of Dr Islam Issa and his fresh, open and unflinching perspective on Shakespeare. He has been a terrific colleague to the Royal Shakespeare Company in recent years, supporting us to have searching and urgent conversations in our theatre-making and enabling stimulating and revealing conversation about our productions. The illuminating clarity he brings to Shakespeare’s resonance and difficulty across cultures and histories, is making an essential contribution to twenty-first-century Shakespeareans.”
