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THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE
George Abraham Safdar Ahmed Omar Sakr
An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo - poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed - that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza
The Nightmare Sequence 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.
Through 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.
With a foreword by Palestinian American poet George Abraham, The Nightmare Sequence 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.
Omar Sakr is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections, These Wild Houses (Cordite Books) and The Lost Arabs (UQP). The Lost Arabs won the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the Colin Roderick Award. His first novel, Son of Sin (Affirm Press), was published to acclaim in 2022. In 2023 he published his latest poetry collection, Non-Essential Work. Omar is a widely published essayist and editor whose work has been translated into Arabic and Spanish. Born to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants in Western Sydney, he lives there still.
Safdar Ahmed is an artist, writer and educator who lives and practices on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people. He works across a range of mediums, including drawing, graphic narratives, painting, musical performance and installation. Safdar's art practice focuses on issues of representation and belonging, referencing personal history, graphic storytelling, cultural exegesis and Muslim tradition. Safdar is the author of Still Here, which won the Multicultural Award and Book of the Year Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, a CBCA book of the year award, and Gold in the Comics Arts of Australia Awards.
Through 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.
With a foreword by Palestinian American poet George Abraham, The Nightmare Sequence 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.
Omar Sakr is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections, These Wild Houses (Cordite Books) and The Lost Arabs (UQP). The Lost Arabs won the 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the John Bray Poetry Award, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the Colin Roderick Award. His first novel, Son of Sin (Affirm Press), was published to acclaim in 2022. In 2023 he published his latest poetry collection, Non-Essential Work. Omar is a widely published essayist and editor whose work has been translated into Arabic and Spanish. Born to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants in Western Sydney, he lives there still.
Safdar Ahmed is an artist, writer and educator who lives and practices on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people. He works across a range of mediums, including drawing, graphic narratives, painting, musical performance and installation. Safdar's art practice focuses on issues of representation and belonging, referencing personal history, graphic storytelling, cultural exegesis and Muslim tradition. Safdar is the author of Still Here, which won the Multicultural Award and Book of the Year Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, a CBCA book of the year award, and Gold in the Comics Arts of Australia Awards.
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Book Published 2025-04-08 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS) |