Voices On the Bridge Fundraiser – 21/06/2025
VoicesontheBridge Fundraiser for the Children of Gaza 6.30pm Saturday 21st June 2025 @StoryvilleBooks, Mill Street Quarter, Pontypridd. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Storyville-Books/t-qjnmgye We are really pleased that Sabrin Hasbun will be speaking on Saturday 21st June and reading from her book “Crossing”. … Organised and presented by Rob Cullen of VoicesontheBridge. Reading and performing with Sabrin Hasbun will be Abeer Ameer, Patrick Jones, Mike Jenkins, Rob Cullen, Leanne Evans, Des Mannay, Tracey Rhys, Fiona Cullen, Ben Wildsmith and Greg Cullen. An evening of poetry, spoken word and song. Menna Elfyn couldn’t be with us but has generously donated 20 copies of – Y Bachgen a’r Wal – The Boy and the Wall made by the young people at Lajee Centre near the city of Bethlehem. Gerhard Kress has also donated some of his paintings and the sale will be donated There will also be food and music. This event is part of The Pontypridd Great Big Community as Super Power Day. Watch out for further posts with more information about the evening. We hope you can join us and support the children of Gaza. Tickets are £10.
(Cardiff) Fady Joudah UK Tour – 09/06/2025
This is the second year of Awraq festival. This year we are trying something different – we are centering the festival around organising a small UK tour for Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah. His poetry and point of view as a Palestinian in this time of genocide are important for us to share, and we are very glad to be able to bring him to the UK. The Tour will have an event in Bath on the 6th June 2025 which will be recorded and live streamed online, an event in Bristol on the 7th June, and in Cardiff on the 9th June. For more information and to book tickets go to https://awraqfestival.com/2025-festival/fady-joudah-uk-tour-2025/ Join us for an evening of poetry reading and a conversation. Fady will read from his poetry and talk about writing and being Palestinian in a time of genocide. The conversation will be chaired by Palestinian-Italian writer, Sabrin Hasbun. The conversation will be followed by Q&A with the audience.
Life Writing in a Time of Erasure – 08/06/2025
Taking inspiration from her own award-winning family memoir, Crossing, Sabrin Hasbun will deliver a workshop that focuses on life writing to actively reclaim our narratives, in a time of dehumanisation, growing censorship and erasure. It will take place at the Palestine Museum in Bristol on the 8th June 2025. For more infomration and to book a place go to https://awraqfestival.com/2025-festival/life-writing-in-a-time-of-erasure-writing-workshop/https://awraqfestival.com/2025-festival/life-writing-in-a-time-of-erasure-writing-workshop/
(Bristol) Fady Joudah UK Tour – 07/06/2025
This is the second year of Awraq festival. This year we are trying something different – we are centering the festival around organising a small UK tour for Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah. His poetry and point of view as a Palestinian in this time of genocide are important for us to share, and we are very glad to be able to bring him to the UK. The Tour will have an event in Bath on the 6th June 2025 which will be recorded and live streamed online, an event in Bristol on the 7th June, and in Cardiff on the 9th June. For more information and to book tickets go to https://awraqfestival.com/2025-festival/fady-joudah-uk-tour-2025/ Join us for an evening of poetry reading and a conversation. Fady will read from his poetry and talk about writing and being Palestinian in a time of genocide. The conversation will be chaired by Palestinian-Italian writer, Sabrin Hasbun. The conversation will be followed by Q&A with the audience.
(Online & Bath) Fady Joudah UK Tour – 06/06/2025
This is the second year of Awraq festival. This year we are trying something different – we are centering the festival around organising a small UK tour for Palestinian-American poet Fady Joudah. His poetry and point of view as a Palestinian in this time of genocide are important for us to share, and we are very glad to be able to bring him to the UK. The Tour will have an event in Bath on the 6th June 2025 which will be recorded and live streamed online, an event in Bristol on the 7th June, and in Cardiff on the 9th June. For more information and to book tickets go to https://awraqfestival.com/2025-festival/fady-joudah-uk-tour-2025/ Join us for an evening of poetry reading and a conversation. Fady will read from his poetry and talk about writing and being Palestinian in a time of genocide. The conversation will be chaired by Palestinian-Italian writer, Sabrin Hasbun. The conversation will be followed by Q&A with the audience.
Crossing Book Launch – Book Space- 15/05/2025
CROSSING book launch with SABRIN HASBUN in conversation with BEN FERGUSSON 🗓️ DATE: Thursday 15th May⏰ TIME: 6:30pm (doors open at 6:10pm)📍 LOCATION: Book Space, 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL🎟 TICKETS: £4 (https://www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/crossing-event-ticket) An evening in conversation with Sabrin Hasbun to talk about her new book, Crossing There is an option to pay what you can as we would like to keep this event accessible for all. There is a limited number of PWYC tickets so please only use it if you need to. Follow this link for PWYC About the book: Crossing, is a memoir-family saga which retraces the love story between Sabrin’s Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand her mother’s choices from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to love and community activism in Palestine. This is a story about grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging. About the author: Sabrin Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. She has always had to mediate between cultures and every day for her is a journey across borders. Sabrin believes in the extremely generative power of collective creation and action and her research focuses on collaborative practices to explore histories of marginalised groups and decolonisation strategies. She has recently worked as writer, editor, translator, and trainer for several institutions around the world and published articles, both individual and collaborative, about collective creation in communities. She now works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Met university, specialising in writing for liberated imaginations and alternative futures. Sabrin‘s first book, the family memoir Crossing: a love story between Italy and Palestine, won the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize and will be published in May 2025.
Crossing Book Launch – Bookhaus – 14/05/2025
CROSSING book launch with SABRIN HASBUN in conversation with SUNNY SINGH 🗓️ DATE: Wednesday 14th May⏰ TIME: 6:00pm📍 LOCATION: Bookhaus, 4 Rope Walk, Bristol, BS1 6ZJ🎟 TICKETS: £6, includes a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the book (https://www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e126601) WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE 2023-24 ‘Vivid, compassionate, captivating’ Elif Shafak ‘A special and original voice, one for our times’ Philippe Sands ‘A moving and tender story about love and identity, and a meditation on the people who make us who we are’ Dina Nayeri A beautiful and compelling family memoir retracing the love story between Sabrin Hasbun’s Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand her mother’s choices which led her from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to finding love and community activism in Palestine. This is a story about overcoming grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging.
Crossing Book Launch – Daunt Books – 13/05/2025
CROSSING book launch with SABRIN HASBUN in conversation with LUCY POPESCU 6:30pm start 🗓️ DATE: Tuesday 13th May⏰ TIME: 6:30pm📍 LOCATION: Daunt Books Hampstead, 51 South End Road, London, NW3 2QB🎟 TICKETS: £6 (https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/sabrin-hasbun-in-conversation-with-lucy-popescu/) After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand the choices which led her mother from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to finding love and community activism in Palestine. Crossing is a beautiful and compelling family memoir retracing the love story between Sabrin Hasbun’s Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. This is a story about overcoming grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging. Sabrin will be joined in conversation by Lucy Popescu who is a writer, editor and arts critic with a background in human rights. Lucy is the editor of the anthology A Country to Call Home and the author of A Country of Refuge.
Crossing Book Launch – Palestine House – 12/05/2025
CROSSING book launch with SABRIN HASBUN in conversation with HAZEM JAMJOUM 7:30pm start 🗓️ DATE: Monday 12th May⏰ TIME: 7:30pm📍 LOCATION: Palestine House,113 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6JQ🎟 TICKETS: TBC (https://www.tickettailor.com/events/palestinehouse)
The Palestine Laboratory Film & Q&A – 24/04/2025
The Palestine Laboratory Episode 1Investigating the Global Export of Israel’s Occupation Technology Join us for a screening of The Palestine Laboratory, a groundbreaking documentary by journalist Antony Loewenstein, published by Al Jazeera in January 2025. This film uncovers how Israel has developed a “technology of occupation” in Palestine and profits by exporting it worldwide. Episode 1 delves into how Israeli weapons and surveillance technologies—marketed as “field-tested” and “battle-proven”—are first deployed against Palestinians before being sold to governments and security forces across the globe. The documentary examines:-The role of military intelligence Unit 8200 in incubating surveillance tech start-ups-The expansion of Israel’s AI targeting systems in Gaza-How Israeli arms and security companies thrive by promoting an ethno-nationalist agenda Following the screening, join us for an exclusive Q&A chaired by Sabrin Hasbun with:Antony Loewenstein – Presenter/Co-writerDan Davies – Director/Co-writerFarid Barsoum – Commissioning Editor/Executive Producer At Palestine House, 113 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6JQ Tickets available here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/palestinehouse/1650378?