Articles by Omar Sakr
- Profile
- Omar Sakr is a queer Arab Muslim poet and novelist, born and raised in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish migrants, and a member of The Greens (see his Why I joined The Greens). Some of his published books are These Wild Houses (Cordite, 2017), The Lost Arabs (UQP, 2019), Son of Sin (Affirm Press, 2022).
Democracy, Peace, Social Justice
Post-election in the genocide
“As I write this, Israeli airstrikes continue to rain down on a city reduced to rubble, on people—a million children—huddled in tents”. Writing as genocide unfolds in Gaza and his newborn Arab-Aboriginal child laughs in his arms, former Greens candidate Omar Sakr dissects Labor’s electoral “super mandate” built on a historically low 34.6% primary vote and coordinated attacks on the... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Green Agenda 2024:2, Peace, Social Justice
Trump / Harris / Wong
In this critique, poet and writer Omar Sakr methodically dismantles Foreign Minister Penny Wong's attempts to gaslight the Australian public about the Commonwealth’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Analysing Wong's recent opinion piece — its manipulation of timelines, false equivalencies and misinformation about Australia's military and political support for Israel. Sakr exposes how both Labor and Liberal actively enables... Read More
