Micaela Sahhar

Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Cordite, Overland, Southerly and Griffith Review among others. Her most recent scholarly publication, ‘Occupied Narrative and the 2021 Unity Intifada’ is available in Monish Bhatia, Scott Poynting, and Waqas Tufail (eds.) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). She received a special commendation for the Peter Blazey Fellowship (2024), is a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellow (2021), and travelled to Palestine in mid-2023 on a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund Grant to work on a non-fiction manuscript.

All essays by Micaela Sahhar

Review: Micaela Sahharon Nick Riemer
and Antony Loewenstein

Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine by Nick Riemer Rowman & Littlefield
January 2023
224pp
ISBN 9781538175873
The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein Scribe Publications
May 2023
272pp
ISBN 9781922310408

Death of the Bystander

In her review of two recent books on Palestine, Micaela Sahhar draws on her family history and experience as a scholar to examine the case for academic boycott and the limitations of the Western liberal mindset for Palestinian allyship.