SJWF 2022 PROGRAM BOOKLET 1.0 - Flipbook - Page 13
Sunday.19.June.2022
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Main room
RUNAWAYS WITH SHELLEY
DAVIDOW
Two women, born a decade apart on opposite ends of the
African continent – Shaimaa, an Arab Muslim from Egypt and
Shelley an Ashkenazi Jew from South Africa – retell their story
of a friendship that has defied historical, geographic, and
temporal boundaries, mapping the vast emotional and
geographic territories they have travelled as women pushing
against patriarchal confines over the past two decades.
In 'Runaways', a moving and expressive exchange of words and
memories, Shaimaa and Shelley recall what shaped them, what
broke them, and how they made themselves whole again
through their interwoven stories.
Shelley Davidow
Shelley Davidow is an award-winning international author
originally from South Africa. Writing across genres, her 47
books include the memoirs 'Runaways' (Ultimo, 2022),
'Shadow Sisters' (University of Queensland Press, 2018),
'Whisperings in the Blood' (University of Queensland Press,
2016), 'Playing with Words' (Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2016),
'Fail Brilliantly' (Familius, 2017) and 'Lights over Emerald
Creek' (Hague, 2017). She is co-creator of a TV series currently
in development and is a senior lecturer in Education at the
University of the Sunshine Coast. She lives on a saltwater lake
with her family and a tame kookaburra.
Book at www.shalom.edu.au