Micaela Sahhar

Micaela Sahhar is a writer, researcher and Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication.

Her work is interdisciplinary in nature, and she draws in particular on  theories of decoloniality, questions of narrative appropriation, and methodologies of archiving in her research and creative practice. She has a particular interest in narrative representation and cultural production in the dynamics of settler colonialism; her specific area of interest is in Palestine studies and how it is informed by First Nations knowledge and research in both Australia and elsewhere. In addition to her training in creative writing, she is trained in both history and law. She has considerable teaching experience at a range of post-secondary levels, and has taught in creative writing, literary studies, as well as in history, sociology and crimnology in a variety of settings. 

Her creative non-fiction essays, commentary and poetry have been published in Cordite, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland, Southerly and the Sydney Review of Books among others. Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: an encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family (NewSouth, 2025) is her first book.