• 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 […]

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