Isabella Hammad
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Belmont Library Latest: Shakespeare's 460 Birthday (April 23, 2024)
Medfield - Arab & Arab American Voices - Adults
Medfield - Arab & Arab American Voices - Adults
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"A bold, evocative new novel from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 and Betty Trask Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. 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...
2) The Parisian
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WINNER OF THE SUE KAUFMAN PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF A BETTY TRASK AWARD
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 GlobeA masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian
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Grove Press
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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...
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"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....
