Hasib Hourani

Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker, and educator currently living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Born stateless in Bahrain, Hasib grew up between the Kulin Nation and the Gulf, returning to so-called Australia in 2016.

He has been writing and publishing work since 2019. His practice disrupts expectations of place, archive, and the relationship between the two. Through writing, he enacts processes of sprawling, fragmenting, and stitching back together.

Hasib is a 2020 recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter Scheme and his 2021 essay, ‘when we blink’, was shortlisted for The LIMINAL & Pantera Press Nonfiction prize and is published in their 2022 anthology, Against Disappearance.

Hasib is currently completing his debut publication, a book of experimental poetry about suffocation and the occupation of Palestine – excerpts of which have been published in Australian Poetry and Cordite Poetry Review. You can find his work in Meanjin, Overland, and Going Down Swinging, among others.