Sara Mansour

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Sara Mansour
Born16 May 1993
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] The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular Poetry Slam in Australia [4] which offers an artistic outlet for the often-marginalised youth of Western Sydney to share their voice in a safe and inclusive environment. [5] [2] [6]

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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 with fellow poet Ahmad Al Rady. [6] Bankstown Poetry Slam holds monthly workshops and Poetry Slam performance evenings which often have more than 300 guests in attendance. [3] [6] Notable poets such as the late Candy Royalle, Rupi Kaur, and Omar Musa have performed at Bankstown Poetry Slam. [7] [8] [9] In 2018, Mansour's team was required to hire security guards for their monthly event after Australian politician Mark Latham incited online racial abuse and death threats towards the Slam-goers. [5]

In 2018, Mansour was one of the nine founding board members of NOW Australia, a not-for-profit national organisation that sought to provide assistance to victims of sexual harassment, intimidation, or abuse in the workplace. [2] NOW Australia was initially led by veteran Australian journalist Tracey Spicer AM and was dissolved in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. [10]

In 2019, Mansour co-wrote an episode of Halal Gurls , a six-episode Australian comedy-drama on ABC TV. [11] Halal Gurls is about a group of Muslim women, their careers, and their personal lives in Western Sydney. [12] The show was nominated for an AACTA Award in 2020. [13]

Honours and recognition

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