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
‘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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
Dr Samah Sabawi will be speaking at Freeman’s Bay Community Centre about her book and the need for justice and peace in Palestine.
A literary evening with Australian Palestinian author Dr Samah Sabawi supported by local poets.
“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.
Join us for a conversation with award-winning Palestinian Australian author Samah Sabawi about her family memoire Cactus Pear for My Beloved and her home city Gaza both past and present.
Join author Samah Sabawi at this special event for discussions on Palestinian poetry, literature, culture, and politics
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.
Join us for a discussion of memory, history and colonialism between the author, playwright and poet Samah Sabawi from Palestine and Anaïs Duong-Pedica, teacher and researcher from Kanaky/New Caledonia.
writers discuss how their own tribe’s story became a good book Thursday April 24 1.00pm 60 mins Book Now Room 2, Sorrento Masonic Centre 3385 Point Nepean Road, , Sorrento Christabel Blackman, Lech Blaine and Samah Sabawi with Jane Hone Moderator: Jane Hone Speakers: Christabel Blackman, Lech Blaine, Samah Sabawi
Booking Essential. Call 0408 786 546
SHORTLISTED, 2025 Stella Prize, The Age Book of the Year and the Douglas Stewart Prize and highly commended for the Victoria Premier’s Literary Awards. ‘If there’s a more important or timely book in 2024, I’m yet to come across it. Five big shiny stars.’ GOOD READING MAGAZINE ‘ Samah Sabawi has written a story of courage and […]
Palestinian Australian author Samah Sabawi’s memoire is “a family story cum national archive; a love story for the ages, a poet’s remarkable journey, a profound act of resistance”. Stella Judges’ Report
Theatre and art in times of genocide. Writers Samah Sabawi, Toby Schmitz and Dr Campion Decent discuss their work in theatre and the adaptation from literature or from life into art.
Welcoming for readers and writers of all walks of life, join us for an intimate evening conversation with Stella listed author Samah Sabawi (Cactus Pear For My Beloved), facilitated by moderator Jaclyn Crupi.
A free one-day literary festival celebrating the contributions of women and non-binary writers to Australian literature. Join us for two inspiring sessions on : Katia Ariel in conversation with Kelly Gardiner (6–6:45pm), and Samah Sabawi in conversation with Fatima Measham (7:15–8pm).
Who gets to tell your story and how do you claim it without compromise? Navigating representation, reclaiming erased histories or simply making space for nuance, these voices show that identity […]
