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  • Palestine Under Siege – film screening and Q&A panel

    Doncaster Playhouse 679 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster, Victoria, Australia

    Amnesty International North-East Metro Group and Menzies for Palestine invite you to attend this thought-provoking documentary film screening.

  • 2024 NATIONAL WRITERS’ CONFERENCE: Research & Archive Use

    The Wheeler Centre 176 Lt Lonsdale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Whether you’re stitching together a work of fiction or non-fiction, digging through the archives, and undertaking research are inevitable parts of the process. But how does one find and access the archives you need? And how do you become a dutiful, efficient researcher? Hear how these research virtuosos go about archive fossicking. Learn tips on […]

  • ABC Radio National: The Year That Made Me

    ABC Radio National

    Coming up on Sunday September 15,  Julian Morrow interviews author Samah Sabawi about her new book Cactus Pear for My Beloved and the year of 1967.

  • Author talk with Samah Sabawi Wangaratta

    North East Multicultural Association Suite 3, 90-100 Ovens St, Wangaratta, Australia

    Join us for a discussion with author, playwright, poet and award winner Samah Sabawi about her book Cactus Pear For My Beloved. The story follows the journey of Samah’s parents. who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homeland in Gaza. It tells how Samah’s father, who was born to a […]

  • Wangaratta Club Senior Lunch

    Wangaratta Club 4 Victoria Parade, Wangaratta, VIC, Australia

    The role of our elders in helping us remember our past in order to forge a better future. How to listen, respect and learn from our elders and the power of the stories they tell.

  • Powerful Stories Book Launch | Samah Sabawi | Cactus Pear For My Beloved (Sydney)

    Vere Gordon Childe Centre Campertown, NSW, Australia

    From award-winning author, playwright and poet Samah Sabawi comes this open-hearted memoir of a family over the past 100 years starting in Gaza, Palestine under British rule and ending in Queensland’s Redland Bay. Follow

  • 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 end? What compels you to write it? How do you navigate the emotional landscape of your story? Are you writing to heal, to confess, or […]

  • 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 family story, a love story, a human story. In conversation with Cheryl Leavy.

  • Brisbane Avid Reader Book Event: Saman Sabawi – Cactus Pear For My Beloved

    Avid Reader 193 Boundary Street West End, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Join us for the launch of Samah Sabawi’s Cactus Pear for my Beloved. ABOUT THE BOOK Cactus Pear For My Beloved is the story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland. Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many […]

  • 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.