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Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney

Omar Sakr's 'epic, stunningly dirty' debut novel challenges macho heterosexual myths of Arab-Australian culture

Paramatta Road: Omar Sakr's debut novel gives voice to Arab-Australian Western Sydney. Raph07/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Son of Sin, the debut novel from writer and poet Omar Sakr, tells the tale of Jamal Smith, a young Arab-Australian growing up in Western Sydney. Sakr’s two poetry collections, These Wild Houses (2017) and The Lost Arabs (2019), were widely admired, and the latter won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award.


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