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Fruits of the Loom

Connecting the Arab diaspora in fragments, moments and memories of home

Daniel Nour (Photo credit Kashif Harrison)
Micaela Sahhar (Photo credit Tim Herbert at Melbourne Writers Festival)
Winnie Dunn
Friday 23 May 2025
5-6pm
Event Code: 78
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This year, two of Australia’s most dynamic and exciting new authors released their debut non-fiction works.

Egyptian-Australian writer Daniel Nour’s How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life is his sharply funny coming-of-age memoir about growing up “not-normal”. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate by Palestinian-Australian writer Micaela Sahhar is a contemplation of moments, places and objects of the Palestinian diaspora in a reclamation of the place called home.

In this conversation, hosted by Winnie Dunn, Daniel and Micaela discuss the common themes of their stories and celebrate contemporary Australian literature of the Arab diaspora.
The tundra that has been made of Gaza should impress upon any witness that what Israel is doing in Gaza is the twenty-first-century nadir of human experience.
Micaela Sahhar
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