A Four-Week Writing Retreat · Online via Zoom

Inner Tide

Turning inward without turning away from the world

A four-week journey of writing, listening, imagination and creative exploration. Through writing, poetry, movement, meditation and visual art, we make space to listen to our inner landscapes while staying connected to the world around us.

Saturdays in November · Online via Zoom

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Services

What Haneen offers

Arabic Lessons Online, all levels — language as culture, storytelling and reconnection. Explore Translation Literary and professional Arabic ↔ English translation with nuance and care. Explore Facilitation Creative spaces for reflection, healing, dialogue and community. Explore Writing Workshops Personal narrative, memory, belonging and collective imagination. Explore Artistic Work Performance, poetry, storytelling, film and creative collaborations. Explore

Writing & reflections

Words that hold memory

Essays and conversations on Gaza, belonging, language and the stories we carry.

Haneen Sabbah with her father Abed El Kareem Sabbah and a family member

Palestine Nexus · 6 October 2026

How Israel killed my father. And how we carry on.

A deeply personal essay remembering Haneen's father, his generosity and love of the land, and the memories that remain with her through grief.

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Essay · Global Voices · 2024

Echoes of our lost home in Gaza

Memory, displacement and the emotional geography of home.

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Essay · Global Voices · 2024

Undertones: A dictionary to understand the war in Gaza

Language, narrative and the words used to understand conflict.

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Writing courses & workshops

Upcoming

Inner Tide

A four-week online journey of writing, listening, imagination and creative exploration.

Course details

Past course

Grant You Refuge

A six-week writing course exploring collective liberation, grief, spiritual practices, activism and connection.

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Past workshop

Wild & Holy

A three-hour writing workshop making space for grief and joy, outrage and tenderness, beauty and devastation.

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Performance · Poetry · Storytelling · Film

Through poetry, performance, sound, movement and visual narratives, Haneen explores identity, displacement, belonging, resistance and the human experience — connecting personal stories with collective memory.

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