Ameer Idreis (Arabic: أمير إدريس; born 22 December 1999) is a Palestinian Canadian writer, playwright, and urbanist.

Idreis's debut play Ships in the Night won the 2023 Hart House Theatre Playwriting Competition,^[1][2] 2024 Playwrights Guild of Canada Robert Beardsley Award,^[3] and is in development at Theatre Passe Muraille. Idreis previously participated in the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Playwrights Retreat^[4] and Paprika Festival,^[5] where he developed his second play The Walls Enclosing.^[6][7]

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.^[8] His academic work includes research on urbanism, politics, and planning at the University of Toronto and the School of Cities,^[8] as well as academic articles on the role and impact of the Canadian Constitution on Indigenous and minority rights.^[9][10]

As a young novelist, Idreis published two books in his debut series The Ewald Series,^[11][12] with awards and recognition from the Canada-Arab Business Council, the Council of the Arab League, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,^[13] and the Women's Press.^[14]

• Idreis, Ameer (2023). Ships in the Night.
• Idreis, Ameer (2024). The Walls Enclosing.

• Idreis, Ameer (October 2011). Ewald and the Gems of Time. ISBN 978-1-300-14049-8.
• Idreis, Ameer (October 2012). Ewald and the Land of Unknown. ISBN 9781304164261, 978-1-300-14049-8.

• Idreis, Ameer. “Section 35 and the Settler Constitutional Order’s Impediment to the Decolonization of Indigenous Rights.” Politicus 7, no. Special Issue II (2020): 53–61. https://www.queenspoliticus.com/s/Special-Issue-December-Final.pdf#page=53. ^[9]
• Idreis, Ameer. “The Charter’s Revolutionary Impact on Gay Rights in Canada.” Gettysburg Social Sciences Review 6, no. 1 (2022): 4. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gssr/vol6/iss1/4/.^[10]

• Official website