Sakr has been a published poet since 2014, with over 80 poems appearing in literary journals including Meanjin,[1] Overland [2] and other publications.

[5] In 2020, he was the first Arab-Australian Muslim to be shortlisted for and then win the prestigious Prime Minister's Literary Award for poetry for his book The Lost Arabs.

[14] In 2024, Sakr was scheduled to appear at the State Library Victoria's Teen Writing Bootcamp series for young people alongside Alison Evans, Amie Kaufman, Ariel Slamet Ries, Morgan Rose and Jinghua Qian.

On 28 February, two days before Sakr's scheduled appearance on 1 March, the entire program was cancelled by the library who cited that a "child and cultural safety" review was necessary.

[17] Internal emails relating to the incident, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, later confirmed that the Library had indeed scrutinised the political and religious views of the authors on various topics and especially Palestine when making the decision to cancel the workshops.