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Micaela Sahhar

Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer, researcher and educator. Her poetry, commentary and essays have appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit and Sydney Review of Books among others. She is a Next Chapter fellow (2021) recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Grant (2022) and was commended for the Peter Blazey prize (2024). Her first book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: an encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family (NewSouth, 2025) was shortlisted for the 2026 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for Nonfiction.

What the shadows told me

(for Ellen and Abdullah, after إميل حبيبي and واصف جوهرية) As it is written, they had become bigger than the plane of Akka for (in the sinking sun) they merged with their own shadows. Of whom Habiby writes, perhaps it …

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REMEMBER Editorial

Remembering requires an intermediary to obtain a form and a content. It might be a family or here a poet, it is unceasing as a task and not an artefact.

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Submission to Cordite 116: REMEMBER

How is memory assailed by states, by time, by the formation of institutional practices of commemoration? Alessandro Portelli once wrote that oral testimonies ‘are not always fully reliable … Rather than being a weakness, this is however, their strength: errors, …

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On Kinds of Aunts, Dorothy Porter’s Barbaroi and the Head of a Gorgon

My youngest aunt, Irene, has a dream which she recounts to me, one unremarkable morning, when I am reading to my father over the phone.

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