#isabellahammad — Public Fediverse posts
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En “Reconeixer al estrany, Isabella Hammad reflexiona sobre l’empatia occidental cap al conflicte palestí, qüestionant si aquest reconeixement, quan no va acompanyat d’acció, es queda en una forma buida de solidaritat @AnagramaEditor
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"The context here is a quantity of ammunition dropped on #Gaza that is equivalent to more than three times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A high proportion of those bombs were US-made and supplied. Those bombs were not made of language, and they certainly were not metaphors."
powerful text by #IsabellaHammad on the West's hypocrite scribes and their tone-policing for genocide
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/06/13/acts-of-language-isabella-hammad/
https://archive.ph/R524R
#Palestine #StudentProtests #Westsplaining @palestine -
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I've lost it. I saw a good post with a link to a Palestinian booklist, and lost it. Probably 7 days old, from someone in the Philippines. Any help with reconnection would be great ..
Meanwhile, here are two from my own reading pile.
• The Parisian, by Isabella Hammad (recently mentioned in the FT and by @indianewswatch )
• Palestinian Walks, by Raja Shehadeh (recommended by @pvonhellermannn )
#Palestine #IsabellaHammad #RajaShehadeh @bookstodon
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/book-title/palestinian-walks-notes-on-a-vanishing-landscape/ -
[Edit - now found it.]
I've lost it. I saw a good post with a link to a Palestinian booklist, and lost it. Probably 7 days old, from someone in the Philippines. Any help with reconnection would be great ..
Meanwhile, here are two from my own reading pile.
• The Parisian, by Isabella Hammad (recently mentioned in the FT and by @indianewswatch )
• Palestinian Walks, by Raja Shehadeh (recommended by @pvonhellermannn )
#Palestine #IsabellaHammad #RajaShehadeh @bookstodon
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/book-title/palestinian-walks-notes-on-a-vanishing-landscape/ -
Writer Isabella Hammad: ‘It’s hard to know where we’re going, but it doesn’t look good’
The British-Palestinian novelist on writing from life, the destruction in Gaza and whether artists have a role when catastrophe unfolds.
#books #IsabellaHammad #GazaGenocide #gaza #palestine #israel
https://www.ft.com/content/51236f45-44a4-44d4-8332-78405d3bdf46
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Writer Isabella Hammad: ‘It’s hard to know where we’re going, but it doesn’t look good’
The British-Palestinian novelist on writing from life, the destruction in Gaza and whether artists have a role when catastrophe unfolds.
#books #IsabellaHammad #GazaGenocide #gaza #palestine #israel
https://www.ft.com/content/51236f45-44a4-44d4-8332-78405d3bdf46
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"What in fiction is enjoyable and beautiful is often terrifying in real life. In real life, shifts in collective understanding are necessary for major changes to occur, but on the human, individual scale, they are humbling and existentially disturbing." —Isabella Hammad at The Paris Review
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/27/recognizing-the-stranger/
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"What in fiction is enjoyable and beautiful is often terrifying in real life. In real life, shifts in collective understanding are necessary for major changes to occur, but on the human, individual scale, they are humbling and existentially disturbing." —Isabella Hammad at The Paris Review
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/27/recognizing-the-stranger/