Book Space Cardiff
Crossing Event ticket
Crossing Event ticket
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An evening in conversation with Sabrin Hasbun to talk about her new book, Crossing
When: 15/5/25 18:30 start (doors 18:10)
Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL
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There will be books available to buy at the event or you can preorder below.
Book - £16.99
There is an option to pay what you can as we would like to keep this event accessible for all. There is a limited number of PWYC tickets so please only use it if you need to.
About the book:
Crossing, is a memoir-family saga which retraces the love story between Sabrin’s Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand her mother’s choices from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to love and community activism in Palestine.
This is a story about grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging.
About the author:
Sabrin Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. She has always had to mediate between cultures and every day for her is a journey across borders.
Sabrin believes in the extremely generative power of collective creation and action and her research focuses on collaborative practices to explore histories of marginalised groups and decolonisation strategies. She has recently worked as writer, editor, translator, and trainer for several institutions around the world and published articles, both individual and collaborative, about collective creation in communities. She now works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Met university, specialising in writing for liberated imaginations and alternative futures.
Sabrin‘s first book, the family memoir Crossing: a love story between Italy and Palestine, won the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize and will be published in May 2025.
