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  • 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. […]

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Page Turners: Samah Sabawi at State Library Victoria

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    State Library Victoria Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    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.

  • Helsinki Library Author Talk with Samah Sabawi

    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.  

  • Author talk at Moruya Library

    Moruya Library Vulcan St, Moruya, NSW

    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 […]

  • Sydney Writers Festival: FEAST Family-style

    Carriageworks 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh, NSW, Australia

    I’m excited to be part of this feast, with Candice Chung (Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You), Richard Glover (Best Wishes), Kate Reid (Lune), Tony Tan (Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class), Virginia Trioli (A Bit on the Side) and others with their tales of dinner disasters, festive frivolities and heaping spoonfuls of love.

  • Author talks at Quest Melbourne

    Quest NewQuay 26 Caravel Lane, Docklands, VIC, Australia

    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.

  • Stella Day Out Ballarat

    Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute 117-119 Sturt St, Ballarat, VIC, Australia

    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).