Literary Worlds

Susan Abulhawa is Executive Director of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, and the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, an international children's NGO upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, was translated into 30 languages and is considered a classic in Palestinian literature. Her most recent, Against the Loveless World, was lauded as a "masterpiece".

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Sovereignty and Solidarity

Jumana Bayeh’s research focuses on Arab diaspora literature from the early twentieth century to the present. Her latest book is The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora. 

Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer, academic and educator. Her essays, poetry and commentary have been published in the Griffith Review, Overland, Cordite, Southerly, The Conversation, Arena and The Age among others. She was a Next Chapter fellow in 2022 and the recipient of support from the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund.

Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (2014), Reading William Blake (2015) and Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022).