Book Banquet with Majeda Awawdeh

Celebrate the release of The Sky is Concave with Majeda Awawdeh, in-conversation with Sara M. Saleh over a delicious Lebanese feast! Written with fierce, poetic honesty, The Sky Is Concave is a testament to courage and reinvention. It is an unforgettable memoir of daring to question the limits of your world and reshaping your own sky.

Dr Majeda Awawdeh is an academic, entrepreneur and advocate for women’s education based in Sydney, Australia. Born in the 1948 region, one of two million Palestinians with Israeli citizenship living under occupation, her early life was shaped by patriarchy, civil discrimination, the rise of Islamic conservatism and the complex realities of being a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Majeda holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, a master’s in Mathematics Education, and a PhD in Mathematics Education and Cognitive Load Theory. She is also a winner of a Telstra Business Women’s Award.

Sara M. Saleh is an award-winning writer and human rights lawyer of Palestinian, Egyptian and Lebanese heritage. Her writing has been published across dozens of literary platforms and shared at festivals from Brooklyn to Beirut. Sara made history as the first poet to win the prestigious Peter Porter and the Judith Wright Poetry Prizes. Her debut novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living, and poetry collection, The Flirtation of Girls, received multiple prizes and shortlistings.

Wine and dinner included. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements.