Isabella Hammad
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa, Sonia hasn't been since the second intifada and the deaths of her grandparents. While Haneen stayed and made a life commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London...
2) The Parisian
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
WINNER OF THE SUE KAUFMAN PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARD
WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
"Superb . . . The Parisian makes history, and its actors, live once again."—Boston Globe
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian
...Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete, in 1914 he leaves to...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University nine days before October 7, 2023. The text of Hammad's seminal speech and her afterword, written in the early weeks of 2024, together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what seems a turning point in the narrative of human history. Profound and moving, Hammad writes from within the moment, giving voice to the Palestinian struggle for freedom....
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