Sara Mansour is an Australian
lawyer
A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...
,
writer,
poet, and founder/artistic director of the
Bankstown Poetry Slam The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular poetry slam in Australia. History
The Bankstown Poetry Slam (BPS) was founded in 2013 by Sara Mansour and Ahmad Al Rady, and held in the southwest Sydney suburb of Bankstown. Since its inception, the ...
.
The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular
Poetry Slam in Australia which offers an artistic outlet for the often-marginalised youth of Western Sydney to share their voice in a safe and inclusive environment.
Education
Mansour graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Laws from
Western Sydney University.
Career
Mansour co-founded Bankstown Poetry Slam in 2013 with fellow poet Ahmad Al Rady.
Bankstown Poetry Slam holds monthly workshops and
Poetry Slam performance evenings which often have more than 300 guests in attendance.
Notable poets such as the late Candy Royalle,
Rupi Kaur, and
Omar Musa have performed at Bankstown Poetry Slam. 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.
In 2018, Mansour was one of the nine founding board members of NOW Australia, a
not-for-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
national organisation that sought to provide assistance to victims of sexual harassment, intimidation, or abuse in the workplace.
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.
In 2019, Mansour co-wrote an episode of ''
Halal Gurls'', a six-episode Australian
comedy-drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
on
ABC TV. ''
Halal Gurls'' is about a group of
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
women, their careers, and their personal lives in
Western Sydney. The show was nominated for an
AACTA Award in 2020.
Honours and recognition
* 2017
Canterbury-Bankstown Australia Day Award for Young Citizen of the Year
References
External links
*
Bankstown Poetry Slam
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Living people
Western Sydney University alumni
Lawyers from Sydney
Australian television writers
Australian women television writers
Australian Muslims
1993 births