{"title":"Omar Sakr","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOmar Sakr\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts evocative narratives that traverse the realms of identity, culture, and belonging. His works blend poetic sensitivity with sharp social insight, inviting readers into stories that explore complex human experiences within contemporary Arab communities and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom intimate family dramas to broader reflections on heritage and displacement, Sakr's writing resonates with emotional depth and lyrical clarity. His books offer a compelling fusion of \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e with richly drawn characters in engaging literary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"son-of-sin-by-omar-sakr-9781922992123","title":"Son of Sin","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet Omar Sakr's debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence, woven across generations and geographies, from Turkey to Lebanon to Western Sydney. This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTorn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal must find and test the limits of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary work, Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet's eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46714987872492,"sku":"9781922992123","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18332353482872.jpg?v=1754378533"},{"product_id":"non-essential-work-by-omar-sakr-9780702265884","title":"Non-Essential Work","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Arabs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Arabs\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep into his loves and losses to create a riveting literary experience. Asking questions of timeliness and timelessness, \u003cem\u003eNon-Essential Work\u003c\/em\u003e is a restless and relentless volume that showcases a poet unquestionably in his prime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082320691436,"sku":"9780702265884","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/302823482438.jpg?v=1765273359"},{"product_id":"the-lost-arabs-by-omar-sakr-9780702260360","title":"The Lost Arabs","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRising talent Omar Sakr's vibrant new poetry collection pulses with raw power as it interrogates the topical issues of family, identity and nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVisceral and energetic, Omar Sakr's poetry confronts notions of identity and belonging head-on. Braiding together sexuality and divinity, conflict and redemption, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Arabs\u003c\/em\u003e is a seething, urgent collection from a distinct new voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082882203884,"sku":"9780702260360","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/247583482438.jpg?v=1765278195"},{"product_id":"the-nightmare-sequence-by-omar-sakr-9780702268908","title":"The Nightmare Sequence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed—that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nightmare Sequence\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrait of the violence committed by Israel and its Western allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough poetry and visual art, Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed capture these historic injustices, while also critiquing the role of art and media—including their own—in this time. Born of collective suffering and despair, their collaboration interrogates the position of witness—the terrible and helpless distance of vision, the impact of being exposed to violence of this scale on a daily basis, and what it means to live in a society that is actively participating in the catastrophic destruction of Arabs and Muslims overseas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by Palestinian American poet George Abraham, \u003cem\u003eThe Nightmare Sequence\u003c\/em\u003e is an insightful work of testimony that also considers how art is complicit in Empire. This transcendent book invokes the power of poetry and art to shift hearts and minds; it will serve as a vital record in decades to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082946986220,"sku":"9780702268908","price":31.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/333063482438.jpg?v=1765278473"},{"product_id":"these-wild-houses-by-omar-sakr-9780975249277","title":"These Wild Houses","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOmar Sakr's poetry consists of rich and convincing detail charged with presence and particularity; his poetic voice is so firmly planted and immersed in the world around him that the urgency of his images and rhythms is completely convincing. His complex exploration of identity in clear yet layered language takes us to the core of his experience as a 'queer Muslim Arab Australian from Western Sydney, from a broke and broken family.' This is an impressive debut, a collection which announces a new and important voice in Australian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI won't keep you long. First, I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, on whose land the majority of this collection was written.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow you are about to read the poetry of an Arab Australian, which is a rare thing when it shouldn't be. Now you are about to read the work of a queer Arab Australian, which is a rare thing when it shouldn't be. Now you are about to read the life of a queer Muslim Arab Australian from Western Sydney, from a broke and broken family - not rare, but it should be.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is not a definitive statement on Islam. This is not a definitive statement on Arab identity, not Arab Australian identity, not bisexuality, not even Western Sydney. It is a statement - an exploration of me and what I've seen.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe only thing I ask of you is that you do not stop with me. Discover the other diverse writers and poets in this country; find us, find our books. 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