Suheir Hammad
Fall Quarter Diversity Series
Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad
Palestinian-American Spoken Word Artist
Critiquing Injustice, Developing Empathy
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
11:a.m. and 6 p.m.
Evergreen Olympia, Lecture Hall 1
On Reserve in the Library:
Interview of Suheir Hammad by Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman of American University of Beirut
"this sweet / sweet music": Jazz, Sam Cooke, and Reading Arab American Literary Identities, by Michell Hartman, McGill University
Additional Resources :
Poetry in a Time of Crisis ....the power of poetry to help students critique injustice and develop empathy by Linda Christensen
About Hammad
- http://greatamericanpinup.blogspot.com/2006/01/suheir-hammads-zaatardiva-and-kazim.html
- www.suheirhammad.com (Her official website)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suheir_Hammad
- http://imeu.net/news/article00317.shtml
- http://www.hbo.com/defpoetry/interviews/season5/episode09.html
- Interview with Suheir Hammad
- "this sweet / sweet music": Jazz, Sam Cooke, and Reading Arab American Literary Identities
Some of her written works
- http://www.thescreamonline.com/poetry/poetry2-1/hammad/
- http://www.manzanitavillage.org/whatsnew/fr_articles.html
Samples of her spoken word