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{{short description|American poet, author, actress, performer, and political activist}}
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| birth_date = October 25,
| birth_place = [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]
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==Biography==
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 exodus]], and of the suffering they endured afterward, first in the [[Gaza Strip]] and then in [[Jordan]]. From these disparate
When hip-hop entrepreneur [[Russell Simmons]] came across her piece entitled "First Writing Since", 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|work=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}}</ref> She is now working on her third publication which will be a book of prose.
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