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Isabella Hammad

Praise for Recognising the Stranger

Recognising the Stranger combines intellectual brilliance with moral clarity and profound resoluteness of purpose. This is a book that calls us to witness our place in history. Isabella Hammad d ...

Sally Rooney

A pitch-perfect example of how the novelist can get to the heart of the matter better than a million argumentative articles. Hammad shows us how the Palestinian struggle is the story of humanity itself ...

Max Porter

Without a doubt the most powerful book I have read this year . . . devastating, but so sharp, clear-eyed and insightful that I’d urge anyone to read it

Dazed Digital, *Books of the Year*

Recognising the Stranger combines intellectual brilliance with moral clarity and profound resoluteness of purpose. This is a book that calls us to witness our place in history. Isabella Hammad d ...

Sally Rooney

A pitch-perfect example of how the novelist can get to the heart of the matter better than a million argumentative articles. Hammad shows us how the Palestinian struggle is the story of humanity itself ...

Max Porter

Without a doubt the most powerful book I have read this year . . . devastating, but so sharp, clear-eyed and insightful that I’d urge anyone to read it

Dazed Digital, *Books of the Year*

Recognising the Stranger combines intellectual brilliance with moral clarity and profound resoluteness of purpose. This is a book that calls us to witness our place in history. Isabella Hammad d ...

Sally Rooney

A pitch-perfect example of how the novelist can get to the heart of the matter better than a million argumentative articles. Hammad shows us how the Palestinian struggle is the story of humanity itself ...

Max Porter

Without a doubt the most powerful book I have read this year . . . devastating, but so sharp, clear-eyed and insightful that I’d urge anyone to read it

Dazed Digital, *Books of the Year*

Books by Isabella Hammad

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Articles featuring Isabella Hammad

Extract: Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad

Extract: Recognising the Stranger by Isabella Hammad

When I was wondering what to talk about in this lecture, I started thinking about Edward Said and lateness as a point of departure. Then I went back to his early book Beginnings. And then I decided after all that I preferred to start in the middle, and more specifically that I wanted to talk […]