Samah Sabawi is a Palestinian Australian Canadian playwright and poet. Her theater credits include the multi-award-winning plays Tales of a City by the Sea and THEM. Sabawi dedicates her work onstage and on the page to resisting the horrors of colonialism and the bitterness of exile.
Khair Alah Salim / Courtesy of the artist
Scene 1 – Operation Sperm in Womb
Think of her
As they loosen your chains
As they lower you down
As the soles of your feet
Touch the bloodstained ground…
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