Room For Dinner – 28/06/2024
Sabrin has been invited to the Room For Dinner event organised by Counterpoints Art to read from her book and other Palestinian works.
Bye Bye Tiberias Q&A – 27/06/2024
The film Bye Bye Tiberias will be shown at the Watershed Bristol. Sabrin will lead a Q&A with Nadine Naous, the co-writer of the film, after the inagural showing on the 27th June. Please book your tickets and find =more information here: https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/12609/bye-bye-tiberias
Decolonising the Mind Conference – 27/06/2024
Sabrin will deliver a paper entitled “The greatest malaise of the academic world: practicing decolonisation in academia”. The Deloconising the Mind conference is organised by Cardiff Met University. Please sign up here: https://cardiffmet.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_af4S8J5rF1P3tFY
Gaza Champions Fundraiser – 24/06/2024
Bookhaus Bristol is hosting an evening of readings, talks and community action to raise funds for the Gaza Champions Initiative. Sabrin was invited to read her work. There will also be other authors, including Noreen Masud and Nikesh Shukla. Gaza Champions are a collective of allies from around the world who are connecting with families in Gaza as champions for their fundraising campaigns to escape the ongoing genocide. The initiative offers direct support for families and individuals across Gaza and aims to cultivate an international community of allies.
Cardiff Feminist Book Club – 22/06/2024
Sabrin was invited to join the club’s disscusion on the book ‘Enter Ghost’ by Isabella Hammad. More information on the original instagram post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6tyyizIAVk/
Beautiful Resistance – 22/05/2024
Sabrin was invited to read poetry in this Fundraising event from the Newport PSC (Palestine Solidarity Campaign) and Cardiff Stop The War. More information here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C64IhmhIgYm/
Speakers and Banner Workshop – 21/04/2024
Living under apartheid: Sabrin will speak on her and her family’s experience of apartheid in the West Bank. Solidarity with Palestine: Speakers and Banner Workshop is an event organised by Amnesty International in Cardiff. It will take place 21st April 2024. Tickets available here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/cardiff/tiny-rebel-cardiff/solidarity-with-palestine-speakers-and-banner-workshop/2024-04-21/19:00/t-gagadjy
Lyra Festival – 20/04/2024
Translation and Displacement: An afternoon of poetry responding to displacement, occupation, exile, and other kinds of othering. Our annual multilingual events showcase the power of poetry across different languages and cultures, with the poems being performed in both their original language and their English translated versions. This event, in partnership with the Poetry Translation Centre in their 20th year, will feature Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi with poet and friend Stephen Watts, Italian-Palestinian writer Sabrin Hasbun, Somali poet Ibrahim Hirsi, and Girasol Press reading the works of imprisoned Argentine poets. Free event taking place on the 20th April 2024. For more information click here: https://www.lyrafest.com/#e105208
Stop the War – 18/04/2024
How can Wales support Palestine?: The event will focus on political campaigning and local community activities. On the 18th April, Sabrin will be a panelist disscussing the active engagement we need. For tickets and more information click here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stopthewarcardiff/1211769
Writing under occupation – 15/04/2024
An event hosted by Bath Spa University, focused on writing and reading under occupation. Sabrin will take part in discussing how writers, publishers and book workers have been organising to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and to promote Palestinian writing. It will take place at 5-7pm at Newton Park campus, and also involve a talk from Tom Sperlinger from Bristol, talking about his experience teaching at Al Quds University in 2013, and his book Romeo and Juliet in Palestine.