'Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can’t bear to put them in the ground. In June of 1948, as a six-year-old girl, she was expelled with her family from their village in Palestine. Now she carries the weight of that expulsion with her, and her past and present are one. Told in time shift, The Sunbird is a modern parable which tells the story of millions who just want to go home.'
Sara Haddad in Conversation
Nico Callaghan
(presenter),
2025
29700473
2025
single work
podcast
'In this episode, a conversation with Sara Haddad, author of the novella, The Sunbird.
'Haddad’s book follow’s Nabila Yasmeen, a woman in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can’t bear to put them in the ground. In June of 1948, as a six-year-old girl, she was expelled with her family from their village in Palestine. Now she carries the weight of that expulsion with her, and her past and present are one.
'Told in two timeframes, The Sunbird is a modern parable that tells the story of millions who just want to go home.' (Production summary)
'Each week, Nabila Yasmeen leaves the house with three items in her pockets: a stone, a key, a map. The stone was retrieved the day israel invaded her town as a little girl. The key will one day re-open the door to her seized childhood home. The map is one familiar to most Palestinians: our diminishing land over time, as the zionist entity annexed more and more to satiate its gluttonous and malevolent control.'
'Each week, Nabila Yasmeen leaves the house with three items in her pockets: a stone, a key, a map. The stone was retrieved the day israel invaded her town as a little girl. The key will one day re-open the door to her seized childhood home. The map is one familiar to most Palestinians: our diminishing land over time, as the zionist entity annexed more and more to satiate its gluttonous and malevolent control.'
Sara Haddad in Conversation
Nico Callaghan
(presenter),
2025
29700473
2025
single work
podcast
'In this episode, a conversation with Sara Haddad, author of the novella, The Sunbird.
'Haddad’s book follow’s Nabila Yasmeen, a woman in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can’t bear to put them in the ground. In June of 1948, as a six-year-old girl, she was expelled with her family from their village in Palestine. Now she carries the weight of that expulsion with her, and her past and present are one.
'Told in two timeframes, The Sunbird is a modern parable that tells the story of millions who just want to go home.' (Production summary)
