Join Scribe authors Antony Loewenstein, Bill von Hippel, Habiburahman, and Jeff Sparrow at the 2019 Brisbane Writers Festival.
Antony Loewenstein is a Jerusalem-based Australian journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. He is the author of Disaster Capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe; the writer/co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and the co-director of an Al-Jazeera English film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other books include My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution, and Profits of Doom, and he is the co-editor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and is a contributor to For God’s Sake. His latest book is Pills, Powder, and Smoke.
Friday 6 September — Neoliberalism & Its Effects
Saturday 7 September — Pills, Powder, and Smoke
Saturday 7 September — Speaking Truth To Power
Sunday 8 September — Workshop: Investigative Journalism
William von Hippel is a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland. His work has been covered in The Australian, The New York Times, The Economist, The Age, Harvard Business Review, Time, The Sydney Morning Herald, and elsewhere. His latest book is The Social Leap.
Saturday 7 September — Living with Principles
Saturday 7 September — The Wellspring of Wellbeing
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Habiburahman, known as Habib, is a Rohingya. Born in 1979 in Burma (now Myanmar), he escaped torture, persecution, and detention in his country, fleeing first to neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia, where he faced further discrimination and violence, and then, in December 2009, to Australia, by boat. Habib spent 32 months in detention centres before being released. He now lives in Melbourne. Today, he remains stateless, unable to benefit from his full human rights. Habib founded the Australian Burmese Rohingya Organization (ABRO) to advocate for his people back in Myanmar and for his community. He is also a translator and social worker, the casual support service co-ordinator at Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees (RISE), and the secretary of the international Rohingya organisation Arakan Rohingya National Assembly (ARNA), based in the UK. In 2019, he was made a Refugee Ambassador in Australia. The hardship and the human rights violation Habib has faced have made him both a spokesperson for his people and a target for detractors of the Rohingya cause. His memoir First, They Erased Our Name is out now.
Sunday 8 September — Refugees and Generosity: Who Charity is Not Enough
Sunday 8 September — First, They Erased Our Name
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, and broadcaster. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and contributes regularly to many other Australian and international publications. Jeff is a former member of the 3RRR Breakfasters team and the immediate past editor of literary journal Overland. He is the author of a number of books, including Money Shot: a journey into porn and censorship; No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson; and Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the rise of the right. His forthcoming book, Fascists Among Us: online hate and the Christchurch massacre, will be out this November.
Friday 6 September — Politically Correct
Saturday 7 September — The Problem with Platforms: Who Gets Centre Stage and Why
