• 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 […]

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.  

  • Owning the Page: Identity and writing your truth – OzAsia Festival

    Gilbert Suite Adelaide Convention Cen

    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 is a source of power, poetry and precision. Speakers: Speakers are: Olivia De Zilva, Quah Ee Ling, Prasanthi Ram and Dr Samah Sabawi. Panel will […]