Sara Mansour

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Sara Mansour
Born16 May 1993
Bankstown, New South Wales
NationalityAustralian
CitizenshipAustralian
EducationBachelor of Laws
Alma mater Western Sydney University

Sara Mansour is an Australian lawyer, [1] writer, poet, and founder/artistic director of the Bankstown Poetry Slam. [2] [3] [4] The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular Poetry Slam in Australia [5] which offers an artistic outlet for the young people of Western Sydney to share their voices in a safe and inclusive environment. [6] [2] [7]

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Education

Mansour graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Laws from Western Sydney University. [3] [2]

Career

Mansour co-founded Bankstown Poetry Slam in 2013. [7] Bankstown Poetry Slam holds monthly workshops and Poetry Slam performance evenings. Slams often have more than 300 guests (the "slamily") in attendance and have featured notable poets such as the late Candy Royalle, Rupi Kaur, and Omar Musa. [3] [7] [8] [9] [10] Mansour also co-founded the first ever National Youth Poetry Slam in 2022. [11]

In 2018, Mansour was one of the nine founding board members of NOW Australia (a national organisation that sought to provide assistance to victims of sexual harassment, intimidation, or abuse in the workplace) led by veteran Australian journalist Tracey Spicer AM. [12] [2] In 2019, Mansour co-wrote an episode of Halal Gurls , an Australian comedy-drama on ABC TV about a group of Muslim women, their careers, and their personal lives in Western Sydney. [13] [14] The show was nominated for an AACTA Award in 2020. [15]

In 2023, Mansour was appointed as youngest-ever board member of the Opera House Trust and will sit alongside the first Indigenous chair, Professor Michael McDaniel. [16] In 2024, Mansour and the Bankstown Poetry Slam team hosted Palestinian journalist, Plestia Alaqad, for a sold out slam at the Sydney Town Hall. [17]

Honours and recognition

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  5. ↑ "Why poetry is a powerful way to shed light on injustices | dailylife.com.au". www.dailylife.com.au. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  6. ↑ "Poetry slam hires security after Mark Latham calls it 'Islamic political ranting'". the Guardian. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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  8. ↑ "'A fierce bright light': poet and activist Candy Royalle dies, aged 37". the Guardian. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  9. ↑ Pitt, Helen (1 November 2019). "Thought poetry was dead? The 'Instapoets' raking it in online would beg to differ". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Omar Musa: Genocide is the basis for racism in Australia". the Guardian. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  11. ↑ "Stories and struggles shared in youth poetry slam". SBS Language. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  12. ↑ "NOW Australia has closed down". The Industry Observer. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  13. ↑ "Trailer Drops For 'World's First Hijabi Comedy' Halal Gurls". HuffPost. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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  16. ↑ Morris, Linda (26 January 2024). "Leadership shake up at the Opera House as first Indigenous chair appointed". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
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