Omar Sakr's 'epic, stunningly dirty' debut novel challenges macho heterosexual myths of Arab-Australian culture
- Written by: Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
Paramatta Road: Omar Sakr's debut novel gives voice to Arab-Australian Western Sydney.Raph07/Flickr, CC BY-SASon 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...
