Samah Sabawi

In 2018, Melbourne Theatre Company premiered a reading of Sabawi's Them, scheduled to premiere at La Mama Theatre (Melbourne) in 2019. Inspired by the psychology of civil conflict, Sabawi describes Them as a "tragicomedy about love, honour and sacrifice".

In 2016, Novum Publishing released I Remember My Name: Poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso. The anthology aimed to feature "deeply personal and deeply political expressions of three gifted Palestinian poets in exile". The book received Middle East Monitor's 2016 Palestine Book Award.

Currency Press published the script of Tales of a City by the Sea in 2016, which was then listed on the VCE play list for Drama students years 11 and 12. At the Drama Victoria Awards, it earned the title of Best Publication for VCE in 2016.

In November 2014, Sabawi's play Tales of a City by the Sea (described as a "Palestinian story of love and separation") premiered at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne, Australia and Al Rowwad Theatre, Palestine. With the venue entirely filled for each viewing, the play received highly positive reviews from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Music, The Australian Jewish Democratic Society and Melbourne Arts Fashion.

Sabawi wrote and produced the plays Cries from the Land (2003) and Three Wishes (2008), both successfully received in Canada.

Samah Sabawi (Arabic: سماح السبعاوي; 1967) is a Palestinian playwright, scholar, commentator and poet. Her plays include Cries from the Land (2003), Three Wishes (2008), Tales of a City by the Sea (2014) and Them (2019). Sabawi has received two Drama Victoria Awards, a Green Room Award, and a place in the VCE Drama curriculum for the latter two plays. Since 2014, Tales of a City by the Sea has been staged over 100 times in theaters and schools around the world. THEM will be remounted in July 2021, with a premiere at the Arts Centre Melbourne before it tours through Shepparton, Bendigo, and Sydney.