1. Samah Sabawi is a Palestinian playwright, scholar, commentator and poet.
12 Facts About Samah Sabawi
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Samah Sabawi's plays include Cries from the Land, Three Wishes, Tales of a City by the Sea and Them.
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Samah Sabawi appeared alongside Israeli writer Ari Shavit, BBC News New York and UN Correspondent Nick Bryant, actress Miriam Margolyes, and numerous others.
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Samah Sabawi is a policy advisor to the Palestinian policy network Al Shabaka, and a member of the board of directors of the National Council on Canada-Arab Relations.
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Samah Sabawi participated in various public forums on peace building, women in conflict areas, the Palestinian right of return, as well as various presentations for interfaith groups.
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Samah Sabawi has co-edited Double Exposure, an anthology of Jewish and Palestinian plays from diaspora for the Playwrights Canada Press.
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Samah Sabawi's poetry has been featured in various magazines and books, most recently in an anthology published by West End Press titled With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century.
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Samah Sabawi wrote and produced the plays Cries from the Land and Three Wishes, both successfully received in Canada.
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In 2018, Melbourne Theatre Company premiered a reading of Samah Sabawi's Them, scheduled to premiere at La Mama Theatre in 2019.
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Samah Sabawi's family left Gaza following Israel's occupation of the Strip in the Six-Day War.
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Samah Sabawi has called for better representation of the Palestinian people She has, for example, criticised the Palestinian leadership for signing the Oslo Agreement.
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Samah Sabawi was controversially dis-invited from a speaker panel at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, due to pressure from opposing speakers.