• In-Conversation with Samah Sabawi & Arwa Abousamra -Auburn NSW

    ISRA Centre Level 3 128-136 South Parade, Auburn, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Join us in Auburn Sydney for an intimate evening of conversation as we celebrate the launch of Samah Sabawi’s Cactus Pear For My Beloved. Explore a powerful family story of love, resistance, and the enduring human spirit across generations.

  • Master Class: Life Writing with Samah Sabawi

    PDR1 MOAD 18 King George Terrace Parkes, ACT, ACT, Australia

    ‘Whoever writes his story will inherit the land of words, and possess meaning, entirely!’ – Mahmoud Darwish  How would you write your story? Where would it begin? Where will it […]

  • Love and Homelands at the Canberra Writers Festival

    Members Diing Room 18 King George Terrace Parkes, ACT, ACT, Australia

    Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and their homeland. It’s a story that begins in Palestine under British rule and ends in Redland Bay in Queensland – a […]

  • 2024 Edward Said Memorial Lecture: Keynote Dr Samah Sabawi (Adelaide)

    Allan Scott Auditorium H2-1, Hawke Building University of South Auistralia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    AFOPA presents guest lecturer for 2024, Samah Sabawi. Samah is an author, playwright and poet and a recipient of multiple awards both nationally and internationally. Her debut novel Cactus Pear for my Beloved, has just been released.

  • Books in Bars at the Waurn Ponds Hotel

    Waurn Ponds Hotel 1154 Princes Highway, Waurn Ponds, VIC, Australia

    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.

  • Takapuna Library Auckland NZ: Author Talk with Samah Sabawi

    Takapuna Library Auckland NZ 9 The Strand, Takapuna, Auckland 0622, New Zealand

    Join award-winning Palestinian author Playwright and poet Dr Samah Sabawi as she discusses her memoire Cactus Pear for My Beloved: a Gaza family story.

  • Auckland: Public Meeting with Samah Sabawi

    Freeman’s Bay Community Centre

    Dr Samah Sabawi will be speaking at Freeman’s Bay Community Centre about her book and the need for justice and peace in Palestine.

  • Dunedin: Evening with Palestinian author Samah Sabawi

    Yours Cafe 43 Moray Place Central Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand

    The esteemed Palestinian author, playwright and poet will join us to discuss her latest book, and the pathway to Palestinian liberation, justice and peace.

  • Christchurch: Samah Sabawi in conversation

    Transitional Cathedral 234 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Palestinian Author and Poet Dr Samah Sabawi will talk about justice and peace an Palestine and her new book Cactus Pear for My Beloved: a family story from Gaza.

  • Whakatū, Nelson: An evening with Samah Sabawi

    Trafalgar Street Hall 67 Trafalgar Street, Whakatū, New Zealand

    “A lyrical insight into the humanity of Palestinian survival.” The Saturday Paper. Join Samah Sabawi in conversation about being a Palestinian from Gaza, the past the present and the power of the stories we choose to tell.

  • Linköping University Open Seminar Samah Sabawi and Claudia Tazreiter: Women on the Move – Stories from Gaza

    Tvärsnittet, Kopparhammaren 7, Campus Norrköping

    In this seminar a book in progress will be discussed through the sharing of narrative accounts of women and girls escaping war and deprivation in Gaza over the past year. The aim of the book is to document and give voice to experiences of forced displacement through the war that the Israeli state has waged in Gaza since October 2023.

  • Linköping University Sweden: Lecture with the auther Samah Sabawi

    Linköping University , Sweden

    Her latest book “Cactus Pear For My Beloved” is a story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland. She shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their […]