Stories from the Diaspora

Authors

  • Paula Abood

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24847/44i2017.139

Keywords:

Australia, immigration, Arab diaspora, cultural reflections

Abstract

Cover image: Jerome Pearce

Author Biography

Paula Abood

Paula Abood is a community cultural development practitioner, writer and educator. She has worked with diverse communities in capacity building projects across Western Sydney for 30 years and has written for performance, radio, publications and film. In 2007, Paula completed a doctorate on race, gender and representation of Arabs in Australia, and was awarded the Western Sydney Artists’ Fellowship for the blogging project Race and the City. In 2013, Paula was the recipient of the Australia Council for the Art’s Ros Bower Award for lifetime achievement in community cultural practice. In 2016, Paula produced and directed the theatrical work, The Cartographer’s Curse, to mark the centenary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

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Published

2017-07-14 — Updated on 2017-07-14

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017): Special Issue: Arabs in Australia: Local Concerns and Transnational Contexts

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Copyright (c) 2017 Paula Abood

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