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253 Summer 2023/4

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Sofia Sabbagh

Sofia Sabbagh is of Irish and Palestinian descent, based on stolen Wurundjeri land. She works as an artist, illustrator and art therapist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Her most recent work involved coordinating artists to illustrate the Palestinian journalists murdered by the IDF since 7 October. Her comics have been published by the University of Melbourne, Samandal comics, Overland journal, joCAT and more.

Articles by Sofia Sabbagh:

12 August 2024 · Cartoons

Oysters, barnacles and the sea

Sofia Sabbagh

"Found living in the safety of rockpools, sponges are animals sensitive to disturbance. They can regenerate, reshaping with the water flow." A new comic by Sofia Sabbagh.

9 July 20249 July 2024 · Cartoons

Saeed’s food parcels

Sofia Sabbagh

Since I wrote this comic, things have become worse. Saeed's food parcels project has expanded to include digging secret wells because water supply is extremely limited. Smotrich, far-right minister and illegal settler, who openly wants to completely annex the West Bank, has been given even more power over it.

27 May 2024 · Cartoons

Disclose, divest — a poster in support of university protesters

Sofia Sabbagh

We demand an end to university ties with weapons manufacturers.

22 November 202324 November 2023 · Cartoons

Why bring trees into this?

Sofia Sabbagh

Palestinians in the West Bank plant roughly 10,000 olive trees a year, to make up for the roughly 10,00 trees Israel cuts or burns every year, since 1967. People I get but why — why bring trees into this?

22 May 202323 May 2023 · Cartoons

Merle Creek

Sofia Sabbagh

I ride to the city along the Upfield train line—and a creek, which I can't see and which isn't on Google Maps, but the frogs love it. It's an invisible wildlife refuge in Melbourne's inner north.

17 April 202318 April 2023 · Cartoons

A brief natural history of fungi in Australia

Sofia Sabbagh

Some fungi live inside plants. Some live on their surfaces, and some live around plant roots. Pre-colonisation, a tree may have had 2-50 different types of companion fungi, each with their own community, which were spread across the ecosystem. The more native fungi, and the larger the fungi community, the healthier the tree.

23 August 20221 September 2022 · Cartoons

Counting lyre birds

Sofia Sabbagh

My friend Trev invited me to count lyre birds with his local community, between Gunai/Kurnai Country and Boonwurrung Country. 'We listen to their songs, and make a map of them.'

31 May 202225 July 2022 · Cartoons

Logging burnt forests

Sofia Sabbagh

I was picked up to go to a citizen science camp in Goongerah-East Gippsland. I'd come to Melbourne for respite, after the Lismore flood. I was excited to see Audrey, who I'd first met at a citizen science camp 10 years ago. But the forest looked completely different to how it had looked the last time I'd visited.

14 August 201725 September 2017 · Cartoons

Victoria, the logging state

Sofia Sabbagh

Artist Sofia Sabbagh on the volunteers helping track the environmental toll of Victoria’s logging practices.