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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kate Lyons, Rafqa Touma and Daisy Dumas

‘A moral crisis’: how the Sydney writers’ festival grappled with the Israel-Gaza war

(L-R) Micaela Sahhar, Samah Sabawi and Sara Haddad  speak at the Sydney writers’ festival.
(L-R) Micaela Sahhar, Samah Sabawi and Sara Haddad speak at the Sydney writers’ festival. Photograph: Jacquie Manning/SWF

The Israel-Gaza conflict loomed over the Sydney writers’ festival long before it opened its doors at Carriageworks last week.

In February, the chair of the festival board, Kathy Shand, resigned over her concerns about some of the programming related to Gaza and Israel.

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