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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) was released in May 2025.

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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