There will also be the chance of participating in a small competition and winning a set of books 🙂
Look forward to seeing you there!
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The panel was chaired by Catherine Noske from the Westerly magazine. Participating were Amanda Gardiner who has published extensive work on infanticide, Cassie Lynch, and myself. The title was the politics of memory, a very intense and intimate debate that began with a deceptively simple question to kick it off: What is memory , and how does it work with writing/art?
We discussed the approach to writing memory ethically, identifying the challenges of raising the past to conscious attention, and making amends. I spoke about how erasing memory is applied to politics in relation to the confirmation bias which is deliberately targeted in the corporate media – in particular with relation to indigenous issues in Australia and on the international stage, notably the Palestinian people’s fight for freedom – historically close to about anything where colonial powers are held responsible, the politics of memory is applied.
With reflections on deep memory, and filled with insight and creativity, this year’s Perth Festival Writers Week will be one to keep us reading, thinking and remembering.
A big thank you to everyone who helped make it a memorable and inspiring Perth Writers Festival. And thank you to Deb for the great sketch of me. That’s a first 🙂
Hello world,
It’s time for an update. Besides being very busy working and connecting with people around the world on the events unfolding in Gaza (If you’re watching mainstream media you probably haven’t heard of the serial killings on unarmed protesters by the Israeli Army (IOF Israeli Occupation Forces), I’m also working on a new story which takes a different path than the previous three novels. It’s still early days though 🙂
I will be returning to writing the stories from Palestine and in the meantime continue to work towards assembling people to define a vision for the future. The discourse, in particular on social media, is missing this crucial point. Change will only come once there are visions, dreams – and that those are iterated, shared, spoken of and given attention to. Of course there must be an acceptance of the past crimes – and hopefully one day there will be retribution – and true reconciliation.
Looking forward to being part of a panel and joining established writers at the Centre for Stories and other venues in Perth for the Australian Short Story Festival, running from this coming Friday the 19th to Sunday 21st of October.
I’m also doing a short story reading from the story published in the westerly 63.1 Toqburneh on Sunday the 21st of October at the Centre For Stories from 1-2.30 pm.
Dear Readers & Visitors,
First of all I have to give out a special thanks to Jim Magnus, a former journalist of the West Australian (apparently when it was a real newspaper) for his long hours spent in my office, philosophising, editing, laughing, crying and not the least drinking lots of tea and coffee. Only I know how much that has meant to me.
And I am grateful from the core of my soul to those who shared and trusted me with it. Thank you. It’s been a long journey to get this far. For me as well as for you.
“Angels bring us our hearts. And when a heart meets a heart, the eye sees no flaw…”
Palestine 2014, once again on the brink of war: Adnan is desperate to find his way out of the pre-dawn existence in the checkpoint queue. In the midst of a volatile turn of events, his eyes catch a shining soul through the yellow-lit darkness of the night. Her red nails match the blood that suddenly awakens his heart. As their life story would have it, she is an Israeli soldier. From that day, Adnan comes to realise his destiny is not written in stone and that he has choices to make. At the same time, his lifelong friend Ali is thrown the cruellest of fates and embarks down the long dark road of revenge. In the ensuing months, Adnan follows a number of terrifying paths and eventually chooses life.
Release date : 01 JULY 2018
The Book is available for pre-order on Kindle now and will available for pre-order in Paperback from Living In The Strange before going out to stores.
I’m still trying to get my head around summer in the southern hemisphere. That summer having passed is bizarre to me. My senses, emotions and actions are in spring mode. I’ve spent most of my life on the northern hemisphere and if anything that’s how my emotional body clock ticks. Is it changeable though? As I go through editing my latest novel from Israel-Palestine with my good friend Jim Magnus, I am also working on a few vignettes, short stories and essays. These are signs that tell me I’m in the mode of beginnings, of creation. However the changing light signals the opposite. Is this possible I ask myself? Is it possible that there is a difference? Who am I or what am I to add significance to such a triviality? Or is it?
The beginning of 2018 I will explore this and I will explore further living in the strange. The Egyptian-Arabic expression that describes living outside of Egypt, beyond the place where the sun sets. I continue to work on my autobiography and continue to talk to people about how we perceive who we are. How we look at our identity. I’m excited to venture to Margaret River for the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival as a guest speaker. It’s three days showcasing an array of storytelling talent. With more than 50 writers, journalists, illustrators and presenters readers join writers as stories are brought to life in many forms. I look forward to meeting writers such as Assaf Gavron whose writing offers insight and hope into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I can’t wait to hear the readers and their hopes and dreams and least but most importantly, answer their questions.
If you’re in Perth, make your way to Margaret River. It’s on the shores of the Indian Ocean, where the Souther Ocean muscles in. The air is cold and crisp I remember, the water clear and untamed. I look forward to seeing it again. It’s been more than a decade since I last visited. I look forward to meeting you.
Salaam
Morsi
I’ll be heading down to beautiful Margaret River for an author talk and workshop in two weeks time. I look very much forward to revisiting this beautiful part of the world and give an inspiring talk as well as do a little bit of reading.
There will be an opportunity to participate in a competition and win a set of novels! All you have to do is open your eyes and look closely 🙂
I look very forward to seeing you and a lot of other people there!
