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Celebrate the launch of Find Me at the Jaffa Gate, a moving and genre-defying contemplation of inheritance, place, memory and chance by Micaela Sahhar, a masterful new voice in literature.
Micaela Sahhar’s accomplished debut examines what is inherited by the daughter of a Nakba survivor – that which cannot be passed down in heirlooms or property, but is instead carried through stories, memories and a search for restitution.
Developed with the assistance of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter fellowship in 2021, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate is ‘a powerful thud of fury, beauty and resistance’ (Antony Loewenstein). Sahhar’s narrative assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, intertwining the lived experience of exile and loss with the fierce desire to reassemble a past and to refuse the narratives imposed on Palestinian people in the present.
She is joined by prominent Wiradjuri poet and academic Jeanine Leane – Sahhar’s mentor throughout her Next Chapter fellowship – and award-winning author André Dao for an evening of readings, discussion and celebration of this unique contribution to Australia’s literary landscape.
Presented in partnership with The Institute of Postcolonial Studies
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 14 May
6.30 - 7.30pm
Tickets
$19.50
Full
$15.50
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$0.00
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Accessibility
Auslan interpreting available by-request
Registered Assistance Animals welcome
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Additional Notes
Micaela Sahhar will be signing books after the event.
The bookseller for this event is Brunswick Bound.
Featuring
Micaela Sahhar
Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Overland, Cordite, the Age, Southerly, and the Conversation, among others, and she was shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize in 2014 ...
Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri poet, essayist, and author from the Marrambidya River. Her poetry and literary critique have been widely published in literary journals and magazines such as Overland, Sydney Review of Books ...
André Dao
André Dao is an author and researcher from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. His debut novel, Anam, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing, and was shortlisted ...