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Suheir Hammad
American poet, author, and political activist
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| Born | (1973-10-25) October 25, 1973 (age 51) Amman, Jordan |
Suheir Hammad (Arabic: سهير حماد) (born October 25, 1973) is an American poet, author, and political activist.
Biography
She was born in Amman, Jordan. Her parents were Palestinian refugees who immigrated along with their daughter to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old.
Suheir Hammad's work has appeared in over a dozen anthologies and numerous publications.Her parents later moved to Staten Island.[1]
As an adolescent growing up in Brooklyn, Hammad was heavily influenced by Brooklyn's vibrant hip-hop scene. She had also absorbed the stories from her parents and grandparents of life in their hometown of Lydda, before the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, and of the suffering they endured afterward, first in the Gaza Strip and then in Jordan.
From these disparate influences Hammad was able to weave into her work a common narrative of dispossession, not
