About

Samah is coming to the Waurn Ponds Hotel to share the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands.

This is the story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling.

How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a believer in peaceful resistance, became a leading poet and writer in Palestine, before being forced, with his own young family in tow, to flee and start a new life in Australia.

One of the gifts of Samah Sabawi’s Baba is to remain open-hearted and optimistic.

Date

Wednesday 2 October 2024 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (UTC+10)

Location

Waurn Ponds Hotel
1154 Princes Highway, Waurn Ponds Victoria 3216