Book launch with Tareq Baconi – 23/02/2026
Fire in Every Direction launch with Tareq Baconi. Both a love story and a coming-of-age tale that spans countries and continents, Fire in Every Direction balances humour and loss, nostalgia and hope, as it takes us from the Middle East to London, and from 1948 to the present. Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness – desire and resistance – is passed down through generations. Tareq Baconi will be at bookhaus to discuss his book with Sabrin. Tickets cost £7 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the book. Tickets
In conversation with Ahmed Alnaouq – 01/12/2025
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth – Ahmed Alnaouq in conversation With Sabrin Hasbun Content note: This event will include discussion of conflict, violence, bereavement and lived experiences of traumaJoin us for an evening with Ahmed Alnaouq, the author of We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. Through stories told by 50 young people in Gaza, this book bears witness to lives shaped by conflict, but also by resilience, hope and the yearning to be seen as more than just statistics. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, a platform amplifying the voices of Gaza’s youth. His latest book, We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth, shares powerful stories of resilience, loss and hope from a new generation of Palestinian writers.Sabrin Hasbun, a Palestinian-Italian author whose work explores liberated imaginations, (un-)belonging and decolonisation, will speak with Ahmed exploring these voices from Gaza. The Q&A is followed by a book signing of We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth.
PACSOC Webinar – 29/11/2025
Join @pac_soc on its 7th webinar on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 🍉 How can artists and artistic production shift and transform the solidarity with the Palestinian people? Speakers: Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor at Columbia University, USA (India), Dr Sabrin Hasbun, writer and creative writing lecturer (Palestine / Italy) and Fadi Quran, strategist, organizer and senior campaigner at Avaaz (Palestine).Facilitator: Simone Jimena Rudolphi, photographer, researcher and educator, (Germany / UK), PACSOC Steering Committee member. Date: Saturday 29 November, 3-5pm Palestine time (UTC+2). 📍 Online panel. Registration form🔗 Palestinian artistic production is undeniably rich. Literary, cinematic, visual, dramatic, and musical masterpieces have allowed the world to preserve the Palestinian people, their history, their culture, and their struggle for liberation in the memory of humanity for nearly 80 years. For the past two years, this same humanity has witnessed an unprecedented escalation perpetrated by the Zionist occupier, live on our screens, with the aim of exterminating the Palestinians and reducing to ashes the existence of this people on the land that was stolen from them. It is also through the screens that we can see many voices rising up and expressing outrage, but above all, committing themselves to solidarity with the Palestinian people. Non-Palestinian artists have joined the movement and chosen to use their artistic platforms to resist, denounce, raise awareness, advocate, and show solidarity through music, film, writing, painting, photography and drawing, theater, and more. How are they engaging? How are they transforming narratives and inspiring the rest of the world through their art and engagement? What dreams do they have for a world where the Palestinian people are free and liberated? How has solidarity with the Palestinian people transformed their artistic work? We will attempt to answer these questions with our guests, whose commitment to human rights and the Palestinian cause appears essential to their artistic practice today.
Norwich Book Festival – 26/10/2025
How do we belong in a world full of divides?Join Sabrin Hasbun as she retraces the love story of her Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the influence it had on her own identity. This moving event crosses cultures and countries, from Palestine to Tuscany, and explores love, grief, and family. This event is also part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts. Tickets and more details
MixTape Poetry Festival – 10/10/2025
Carcazan Publishing is proud to bring you the inaugural MixTape Poetry Festival 2025, bringing together London’s burgeoning poetry, open mic, and spoken word community. Celebrate the power of love, truth, connection, urban genius, and good vibes at exciting independent bookshops and venues, featuring top and emerging talent, music, food, fun, and new memories. This Panel features exciting special guests speaking on “Poetry As Resistance and the Power of Imagination.” Attendees will have the chance to ask questions and find out how poetry has been used to make more than just a mark on the world, and how it continues to be used for today’s challenges as a language of the unspeakable. Tickets and more details Video of Sabrin’s speech
Berwick Literary Festival 2025 – Workshop Series – 11/09/2025
Prize-winning author Sabrin Hasbun leads a workshop series exploring writing as a tool for change. Each session blends short readings, guided exercises and group discussion. Optional one-to-one feedback follows the course. Open to prose writers and poets of any genre and level of experience. One ticket provides access to all three workshops on 11, 18 & 25 September. This is an online event, a link to join will be shared via email with all ticket holders the day before the workshop. Tickets can be booked here: https://www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-on/blf-25-sabrin-hasbun-online-workshops/ Full festival brochure found here: https://berwickliteraryfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/BLF25_Programme_digital_v2.pdf
Book launch with Sunny Singh – 27/08/2025
Spanning both decades and continents, Refuge turns its lens on those who are often overlooked in stories about war: women and children, civilians forced out of their homes in terror, those who wait for their brave soldiers to come home, and soldiers who commit unspeakable violence. this powerful collection simultaneously delves into the darkest parts of the human psyche whilst being an ode to humanity’s ability to endure, love and retain dignity and compassion. Sunny Singh will be here at bookhaus to discuss her book in conversation with Sabrin Hasbun (Crossing). Tickets cost £7 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the book. Presented by bookhaus. Tickets
Crossing Book Event – Newcastle – The Bound – 24/07/2025
✊🏼*Event with Palestinian-Italian author, Sabrin Hasbun (@sabrinhasbun), ft. Newcastle Palestine Solidarity Campaign (@newcastlepsc), 24th July ✊🏼*🍉 📚On Thurs 24th July we have the honour of welcoming Palestinian-Italian author Sabrin Hasbun at The Bound in Whitley Bay (@forumbookscorbridge), to talk about her memoir Crossing. 🔗 Tickets in bio and stories ❤️ Crossing tells the love story of Anna, Sabrin’s Italian mother, and Rami, her Palestinian father. It is about the falling in love and being a family between Palestine and Italy. But it’s also about history of resistance: to Italian fascism and Israeli apartheid and occupation. Ultimately it’s about how to spend our brief time alive as courageously as possible. ✊🏼 Newcastle Palestine Solidarity Campaign will also be on stage, talking to us about how we can translate Sabrin’s story into real life solidarity with Palestine here in the North East. The event will be hosted by author and organiser Yara Rodrigues Fowler. Yara and Sabrin organise together in the pro-Palestine book worker collective, Fossil Free Books (@fossilfreebooks)
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.