Samah Sabawi’s opening comments at the online meeting: Palestine: Democracy Under Occupation? The forthcoming Palestinian elections with Nadia Naser-Najjab and Ramzy Baroud. 21 April 2021
The first in a series of digital events exploring Palestine and Israel. Samah Sabawi, Rimah Jabr, and Stephen Orlov in conversation with Zachary Couture.
Info session about the Gaza freedom flotilla, Feb 10th, 2020. With Samah Sabawi, Michael Shaik & James Godfrey. Since 2008 activists around the world have been sailing to Gaza to break through the Israeli siege and pressure governments to take action. Under a global coalition- Freedom Flotilla Coalition- this year another boat will embark on this journey. Samah Sabawi is a Gazan Palestinian living in Melbourne. She is an award winning author, playwright, and poet and a political analyst for Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian policy network. Samah’s family was forced into exile from Gaza a week after she was born, and 2 months after the 67 war and military occupation of Gaza. She was also one of the australian spokesperson for the 2018 freedom flotilla James Godfrey is an organiser of Free Gaza Australia and spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. He has worked as a volunteer supporting all of the Freedom Flotilla projects since 2011. He is a PhD researcher examining the effects of a counter terrorism requirement in England on freedom of speech re Palestine at universities. Michael Shaik was the Media Coordinator for the International Solidarity Movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He was one of the founders of the FREE GAZA campaign to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip and worked as the Public Advocate for Australians for Palestine from 2007 to 2010. He is a contributor to three books on the role of non-violent direct action in the struggle for Palestinian independence and has commented on Israeli-Palestinian affairs for The Age, The Australian, The Canberra Times, ABC Radio National and SBS television and radio. He currently works for the Australia Palestine Advocacy NetworkInfo session about the Gaza freedom flotilla, Feb 10th, 2020. With Samah Sabawi, Michael Shaik & James Godfrey. Since 2008 activists around the world have been sailing to Gaza to break through the Israeli siege and pressure governments to take action. Under a global coalition- Freedom Flotilla Coalition- this year another boat will embark on this journey. Samah Sabawi is a Gazan Palestinian living in Melbourne. She is an award winning author, playwright, and poet and a political analyst for Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian policy network. Samah’s family was forced into exile from Gaza a week after she was born, and 2 months after the 67 war and military occupation of Gaza. She was also one of the australian spokesperson for the 2018 freedom flotilla James Godfrey is an organiser of Free Gaza Australia and spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. He has worked as a volunteer supporting all of the Freedom Flotilla projects since 2011. He is a PhD researcher examining the effects of a counter terrorism requirement in England on freedom of speech re Palestine at universities. Michael Shaik was the Media Coordinator for the International Solidarity Movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He was one of the founders of the FREE GAZA campaign to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip and worked as the Public Advocate for Australians for Palestine from 2007 to 2010. He is a contributor to three books on the role of non-violent direct action in the struggle for Palestinian independence and has commented on Israeli-Palestinian affairs for The Age, The Australian, The Canberra Times, ABC Radio National and SBS television and radio. He currently works for the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.
A poem that Sabawi wrote after the UN had declared that Gaza was unlivable.
On ABC News 24, AIJAC’s Tzvi Fleischer joined host Karina Carvalho and Palestinian-Australian author Samah Sabawi to discuss the Middle East peace plan, recently announced by US President Donald Trump. This video contains edited excerpts of a much longer interview that aired on Wednesday, 29 January 2020.
ABC Radio’s David Astle talks to Samah Sabawi and Bagryana Popov about their new production “THEM” and how she thought of the story and the developmental process and how she gives each character a 3 dimensional perspective.
The featured speaker of the 2019 James Graff Memorial Lecture was Palestinian-Canadian playwright, author, political analyst and activist Samah Sabawi. She has written and produced the critically acclaimed plays Cries from the Land, Three Wishes, and Tales of a City by the Sea. The title of her talk is “Decolonizing Activism: Resistance Through Art.”
To mark Palestinian Land Day 2019 a small group of mainly socialist alternative Palestine supporters came out to hear Adel Salman, vice president of the Islamic Council of Victoria and Palestinian playwright, poet and activist Samah Sabawi on the steps of the State Library in Melbourne.
Together we stand: Resisting racism, colonization and oppression in Palestine and beyond – Samah Sabawi. Opening plenary session, BDS: Driving Global Justice for Palestine conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2017
BDS: central to Palestine justice solidarity Yousef Munayyer (USCPR), Jessica Morrison (Australia Palestine Advocacy Network), Peter Slezak (University of New South Wales), Samah Sabawi (chair, Nick Riemer) As the situation of Palestinians in the Occupied territories worsens, what are the prospects for the global BDS campaign in the short, medium and longer terms? What challenges
Stephen Orlov, a Boston-born Jew from Montreal, in discussion with Samah Sabawi, a Gaza-born Palestinian from Melbourne, about their book, Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diaspora. On June 4, 2017, the two award-winning playwrights met to talk about this first English-language anthology of worldwide drama, prose and poetry by Jewish and Palestinian writers. The event was hosted by the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) and the Side Door Social Justice Hub. Part 2
Stephen Orlov, a Boston-born Jew from Montreal, in discussion with Samah Sabawi, a Gaza-born Palestinian from Melbourne, about their book, Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diaspora. On June 4, 2017, the two award-winning playwrights met to talk about this first English-language anthology of worldwide drama, prose and poetry by Jewish and Palestinian writers. The event was hosted by the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) and the Side Door Social Justice Hub.
Poetry sometimes suffers from an undeserved reputation as something abstract, lofty or inaccessible – an art form that deals in metaphysics or dwells in the deeply personal. But politics – whether explicit or implied – have always played a part in poetry. Think: Shelley’s ‘The Masque of Anarchy’, Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ and many more before and since. Testing the limits of the form, the poem can be reportage, critique or even violent protest. In a conversation embracing various forms (from classical Arabic to contemporary spoken word), innumerable poetic heroes (from Darwish to C.D. Wright) and various political and personal struggles, four poets will offer their personal perspectives on activism in verse. Can poetry do things, politically, that prose can’t?
“It is very rare that independent theatre is talked about in the Victorian Parliament”. Sabawi & Moussa are being interviewed by 3RRR Smart Arts about Tales of a City by the Sea and the controversy behind it.
Calls for a controversial play depicting life in Gaza to be removed from the Victorian school curriculum have been rejected by the state government.
Featuring Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Samah Sabawi on ABC Radio Melbourne talks about the current situation in Gaza under the occupation on the 15th day of bombing. By ABC Radio Melbourne July 22, 2014
Jan Bartlett 3CR Radio Samah Sabawi on the Current situation in Gaza, the illusion of war, the importance of understanding the context and Israel’s violations of international law
في يوم الخميس الموافق العاشر من تموز لعام 2014 أجرت الشبكة مقابلات مع اثنين من مستشاريها لشؤون السياسات للتعليق حول العدوان على غزة وحول الخيارات المتاحة للفلسطينيين من أجل نيل حريتهم وتحقيق العدالة. سماح سبعاوي مؤلفة وكاتبة مسرحية وشاعرة مناصرة لحقوق الإنسان والعدالة الاجتماعية. تولت في السابق منصب المدير التنفيذي للمجلس الوطني للعلاقات العربية الكندية
Jon Faine’s co-host is Rafael Epstein, the Drive presenter on 774 ABC Melbourne Their first guest is Ari Shavit, an author, reporter and columnist with Haaretz, where he serves on the editorial board in Australia as a guest of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. His book, My Promised Land: The triumph and tragedy of Israel, examines.
Samah Sabawi describes her work as ‘a poetic journey into the ordinary lives of people living in abnormal circumstances and their struggle to survive’. The play grew out of a collection of poetry that Sabawi wrote while she was in Gaza during the three week bombardment of 2008/2009, prompted by her own experiences and those of her friends and family. She says she is not trying to put across a political message.
Premiering November 11, 2014, Tales of a City by the Sea, a Palestinian story of love and separation will be brought to life on three different stages in three cities, in two languages (Arabic and English) within three different artistic interpretations. This is not just a play, it is an act of beautiful resistance. Tales of a City by the Sea will be staged by La Mama in Melbourne Australia, AlRowwad theatre in Aida refugee camp in the West Bank and by Ashtar theatre in Gaza city. Please help us make this dream possible. To pledge a donation and for more information please visit our website
Samah Sabawi talking about the boycott campaign and the promote Israili-Palestine peace initiatives and why the boycott campaign has strong feelinging against such initiative and it has to do with normalization rather than actual peace.