Samah Sabawi

Samah Sabawi is an award-winning author, playwright and poet. Her theatre credits include the critically acclaimed award-winning plays Tales of a City by the Sea (Currency Press 2016) and THEM (Currency Press 2019). Sabawi co-edited Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, winner of the Patrick O’Neill Award and co-authored I Remember My Name: Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso, winner of the Palestine Book Award. Her recent book Cactus Pear for My Beloved: a Gaza family story (Penguin 2024) is long listed for the Stella Prize and is highly commended by the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2025.

Samah Sabawi is appearing in the following events:

Better Off Said: Eulogies for the Living and Dead

Join us for a spoken-word salon with Kaliane Bradley, A. C. Grayling, Gideon Haigh, Marcia Langton and Samah Sabawi as they reflect on ‘The Words I Wish I’d Said’, with a musical performance by Eliza Hull.

Sun 11 May 2:30pm @ Capitol

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