Suheir Hammad
Author and Poet
Arab film festival premieres its first film on campus...Fadi Saba, a Arab Film Festival volunteer and brother of founder Dina Saba, an SJSU alumna. The movie features Soraya, played by Suheir Hammad, a Brooklyn-born Palestinean woman who travels to Palestine to try to reconnect with her heritage... In this article: Palestine, SJSU, Suheir Hammad, and Annemarie Jacir |
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Wikipedia | October 06, 2009
Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad (born October 25, 1973) is a Palestinian-American poet, author and political activist. She was born in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents and immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five...
In this article: New York City, HBO, Brooklyn, Hip Hop, Peabody Award, Hunter College, Russel Simmons, Audre Lorde, and Def Poetry Jam
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Arab American National Museum
...and the community at large. Notable presenters at the 2009 DIWAN conference include writer and comedian Najla Said, poet Suheir Hammad, artist Wafaa Bilal, and poet Remi Kanazi. Global Thursdays is a periodic music program at the...
In this article: Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, Michigan, Salwa Mikdadi, Wafaa Bilal, Chrysler, and General Motors
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washingtonpost.com | May 13, 2009
Stop reading that book -- go watch TV!
...all about the Fort Green neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. We hear from the memoirist Ishmael Beah, novelist Jennifer Egan and poet Suheir Hammad. And there are some distant voices too. Carl Hancock Rux reads from Henry Miller's "Tropic of...
In this article: Dish Network, The New Press, Walt Whitman, Vimeo, Song of Myself, DirecTV, Tropic of Capricorn, Jennifer Egan, and Henry Miller
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Chicago Sun-Times | April 17, 2009
Arthouse films
...about a Brooklyn-born woman who travels to Israel to find her grandfather's lost property in Palestine. On a two-week visa, Soraya (Suheir Hammad, who's appeared in "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry") seeks closure sixty years after his...
In this article: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Delphine Seyrig, Chantal Akerman, The Band's Visit, Israel, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, and Cannes Film Festival
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www.washingtonpost.com | March 06, 2009
A French Accent
...writers discuss creating Arab-themed literature in various languages at 4 p.m. Go tonight to see "Def Poetry Jam" writer Suheir Hammad's "An Evening of Breaking Poems," showcasing her Brooklyn/Palestinian style. Whenever you go, be sure to...
In this article: E mail, Ahdaf Soueif, Moldy Peaches, and Kristin Scott Thomas
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Centre Daily Times | November 19, 2008
Palestinian Oscar hope
...family house in Jaffa, which is now home to a lefty Israeli woman who sympathizes with Soraya's plight. Soraya is played by Suheir Hammad, who, much like the character, is a passionate Palestinian-American raised in Brooklyn.
In this article: Annemarie Jacir, Oscar, The Band's Visit, Israel, Brooklyn, and West Bank
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Daily News Egypt | October 27, 2008
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...Palestinian Nakba, we are happy to bring the spirit of Palestine to theaters across Toronto for the next week.aEUR Acclaimed poet Suheir Hammad, who plays the lead role of Soraya in aEURoeSalt of this Sea,aEUR introduced the film, stating...
In this article: Toronto, University of Toronto, and Danny Glover
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New York Magazine: Politics | September 28, 2008
40th Anniversary - Gloria Steinem and Suheir Hammad on the Sexual Revolution and the Superwoman Myth -- New York Magazine
In Conversation: Gloria Steinem and Suheir Hammad A feminist icon and a rising star on the sexual revolution, the booty-call nineties, and the Superwoman myth. When Suheir Hammad arrives at Gloria Steinem's apartment on the Upper East...
In this article: Gloria Steinem, New York City, Sarah Palin, Upper East Side, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn
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Variety.com - Film Festival Reviews | May 17, 2008
Salt of this Sea Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie Salt of this Sea
...characters are written to explain a situation rather than enjoy an independence of personality. Brooklyn-born Soraya (poet Suheir Hammad) arrives in Israel and faces the usual cold humiliation at passport control once they learn her...
In this article: Cannes Film Festival, Danny Glover, Israel, and Television Suisse Romande
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Faris Bouhafa, 60; Music, Media Manager
...connections to attract top-notch talent for the event, including Sting, actress Mary-Louise Parker and Palestinian hip-hop poet Suheir Hammad. Mr. Bouhafa was also the publisher of a book, "The Single Woman's Guide to the Available Men of...
In this article: Bob Dylan, Gulf War, Columbia University, New York City, Bruce Springsteen, and Greenwich Village
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Suheir Hammad (b. October 25, 1973) is a Palestinian-American poet, author and political activist. She was born in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents and immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old. Her parents later moved to Staten Island.
As an adolescent Hammad was heavily influenced by Brooklyn's vibrant Hip-Hop scene. She had also absorbed the stories her parents and grandparents had told her of life in their hometown of Lydda, before the 1948 Palestinian exodus, 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 only in her capacity as an immigrant, a Palestinian and a Muslim, but as a woman struggling against society's inherent sexism and as a poet in her own right.
When hip-hop entrepreneur Russel Simmons came across her piece entitled 'First Writing Since,' describing her reaction to the September 11 attacks, he signed her onto a deal with HBO's Def Poetry Jam. She recited original works on tour for the following two years. She is now working on her third publication which will be a book of prose.
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