Creative Writing Symposium – Lancaster University – 27/05/2026
Our annual Creative Writing Research Symposium — typically hosting a keynote speaker and three of our current Creative Writing PhD students. This online, half-day, symposium is an opportunity to hear how Creative Writers approach their writing as research. Our keynote speaker is Dr Sabrin Hasbun, (Cardiff Met University). Dr Hasbun was born in Palestine, spent her childhood in Palestine and Italy, and now lives in the UK. She lectures in Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University where she teaches and researches decolonial strategies through collective creation and action. She will discuss language, duty and power in her keynote. We also hear from three of our own Creative Writing PhD students on their own journeys as Creative Writing researchers. The event concludes with a mixer session, allowing attendees to discuss the emergent ideas more informally. Event details here: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass-pgr/events/creative-writing-symposium-ba-ma-phd/
Cardiff University – Evanescent and Emerging Spaces – 22/04/2026
Evanescent and Emerging Spaces: Land/World Struggles of Palestinians and Guarani This event will confront important and disturbing parallels between the genocides of Palestinians and the Guarani in South America, and the challenges of resisting neocolonial land theft and world grabbing. This academic workshop will debate the enduring experiences of racism, aggression and displacement faced by Palestinian and Guarani communities (the latter living along the Brazil-Paraguay border). Both have endured the brutal pressures of state‑building, ethnic-based discrimination and exclusionary regional development. The processes have resulted in evanescent, but also emergent socio-spatial relations, which will be properly analysed. The event will examine root causes, shared and divergent dynamics, and future pathways for justice, focusing on lessons from indigenous resistance to land grabbing and on how Wales can contribute to social, political, economic and environmental reparations (as well as radical and sustained transformations). Participants are called to engage critically, build cross‑border solidarities and translate these insights into concrete action, through advocacy, institutional pressure and sustained support for struggles for land, dignity and self‑determination. Against the backdrop of an evolving literature on the geography of racism and indigeneity, the workshop focuses on the politico‑identitary responses of ethnic nations facing acute violence (including spurious real estate development) whose position differs from that of migrant or minority groups within a single nation‑state. Their ‘in‑between’ status across fragmented territories often intensifies discrimination while simultaneously strengthening claims for restoration, compensation and socio-spatial continuity. Through close engagement with representative organisations and public authorities, the event will develop a comparative framework structured around four interconnected objectives: Through comparative analysis of analogous situations of injustice and marginalisation, this workshop will contribute to global debates on democracy, sovereignty and decolonial futures. The event is FREE and OPEN to both the academic community and the general public. It will take place on 22–23 April in the School of Geography and Planning, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University. Event details and proposed programme here: https://events.cardiff.ac.uk/view/evanescent-and-emerging-spaces-land-world-struggles-of-palestinians-and-guarani/
Author’s hour at The Westacre Theatre – 19/04/2026
An afternoon with prize-winning Palestinian-Italian Author Sabrin Hasbun Join us for a moving and thought-provoking afternoon as Sabrin Hasbun discusses her acclaimed memoir “Crossing.” A sweeping family saga that spans continents, generations, and identities. Blending love, loss, and resilience. Crossing retraces the extraordinary story of her Palestinian father and Italian mother, exploring what it means to belong, to grieve, and to live courageously in a divided world. 19th April, 2pm £20 incl Tea and Cake Book Signing All proceeds support our Summer Theatre Tent Appeal Available to book here: https://www.westacretheatre.com/events/140937?language=en
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