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'''Suheir Hammad''' ({{lang-ar|سهير حماد}}) (born October 25, 1973) is an American poet, author, performer, and political activist.

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. Her parents later moved to [[Staten Island]].<ref>[{{cite web |url=http://poetryforthepeople.org/feb-22-suheir-hammad/ |website=Poetry for the People –|title=Feb brief22: Bio]Suheir {{webarchiveHammad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820171847/http://poetryforthepeople.org/feb-22-suheir-hammad/ |archive-date=August 20, 2006 }}</ref>

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 [[Lod|Lydda]], before the [[1948 Palestinian exodusexpulsion 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 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 [[Russell Simmons]] came across her piece entitled "First Writing Since",<ref name=First>{{cite web |url=http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ac/shammad.html |title=First Writing Since |publisher=In Motion Magazine |date=2001-11-07 |accessdate=3 June 2024}}</ref> a poem describing her reaction to the [[September 11 attacks]], he signed her to a deal with [[HBO]]'s [[Def Poetry Jam]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://electronicintifada.net/content/out-ashes-drops-meaning-poetic-success-suheir-hammad/4173|title=Out of the Ashes, Drops of Meaning: The Poetic Success of Suheir Hammad|last=Hopinson|first=Natalie|date=13 October 2002|worknewspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=29 April 2017}}</ref> She recited original works on tour for the following two years. In 2008, she was cast in her first fiction role in cinema, the Palestinian film ''[[Salt of this Sea]]'' (2008) by [[Annemarie Jacir]], which premiered as an official selection in the [[Un Certain Regard]] competition of the [[Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/2008/actualites/articles/un-certain-regard-salt-of-this-sea-by-annemarie-jacir|title=Un Certain Regard: "Salt of This Sea" by Annemarie Jacir|date=2008-05-16|work=Festival de Cannes 2016|access-date=2017-04-29|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915230007/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/69-editions/retrospective/2008/actualites/articles/un-certain-regard-salt-of-this-sea-by-annemarie-jacir |archive-date=15 September 2018}}</ref> She is now working on her third publication which will be a book of prose.

* The 2009 American Book Awards<ref>{{cite web |authorpublisher=American Booksellers Association |title=The American Book Awards&nbsp;/&nbsp;Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012] |date=2013 |url=http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |work=BookWeb |quote='''''2009''''' […] '''''Suheir Hammad''', Breaking Poems'' (Cypher Books) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313174235/http://bookweb.org/btw/awards/The-American-Book-Awards---Before-Columbus-Foundation.html |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |access-date=September 25, 2013}}</ref>

* ''Born Palestinian, Born Black''. Harlem River Press, 1996, {{ISBN|0-86316-244-4}}.<ref name=First>{{citeReprinted webby |url=http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ac/shammad.htmlUpSet |title=InPress, Motion Magazine |publisher=In Motion Magazine |date=2001-11-072010, {{ISBN|accessdate=2013-06-179780976014225}}</ref>.

* ''[[Mizna]]''

* Hanna, S. M. "Suheir Hammad's Negotiated Historiography of Arab America." ''Philology'' 61.1(2014): 44-7144–71.

* Harb, Sirène. "Naming Oppressions, Representing Empowerment: June Jordan's and Suheir Hammad's Poetic Projects." ''Feminist Formations'' 26.3 (2014): 71-9971–99.

* Hartman, Michelle. "‘A Debke Beat Funky as P.E.’s Riff’: Hip Hop Poetry and Politics in Suheir Hammad’sHammad's Born Palestinian, Born Black". ''Black Arts Quarterly'' 7.1 (2002): 6-86–8. Print.

* Harb, Sirène. "Transformative Practices and Historical Revision: Suheir Hammad’s Born Palestinian, Born Black". ''Studies in the Humanities'' 35.1 (June 2008): 34-4934–49.

* Oumlil, Kenza. "'Talking Back': The Poetry of Suheir Hammad". ''Feminist Media Studies'' 13.5 (2013): 850-859850–859.

[[Category:American Muslims from New York (state)]]

[[Category:PeopleWriters from Staten Island]]