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{{short description|American poet, author, and political activist}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Suheir Hammad
| image = SuheirHammad.jpg
| caption = Suheir Hammad in 2009
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| birth_place = [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]
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==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. Her parents later moved to [[Staten Island]].<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 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 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|newspaper=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.
She took part in the [[Bush Theatre]]'s 2011 project ''[[Sixty Six Books]]'', for which she wrote a piece based upon the [[Book of Haggai]] in the [[King James Bible]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/event/sixty-six-books/|title = Sixty-Six Books}}</ref>
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* [[Tony Award]] – Special Theatrical Event – original cast member and writer for Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003)
* Suheir is also a talent associate for the Peabody Award-winning HBO show Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry (2003)
* The 2009 American Book Awards<ref>{{cite web |
==Works==
* ''Born Palestinian, Born Black''. Harlem River Press, 1996, {{ISBN|0-86316-244-4}}.
* ''Drops of This Story'' Harlem River Press, 1996.
* ''Zaatar Diva'' Cypher Books, 2006, {{ISBN|1-892494-67-1}}
* ''Breaking Poems'' Cypher Books, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-9819131-2-4}}
==Periodicals==
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