# Isabella Hammad

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114: Amy Abdelnoor on Ever Land | Reading Is Political

Welcome to a new series of Reading Is Political. My first guest is debut novelist Amy Abdelnoor, whose extraordinary novel Ever Land draws on her experiences living and working in the West Bank and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Through the intertwined stories of two young women, Amy explore…

Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance, Part 7: The Political Life of the Novel

Episode Topic: The Political Life of the NovelJoin novelists Isabella Hammad, Brandon Hobson, and Amir Ahmadi Arian for an ontological inquiry into the aesthetics of resistance. Amidst the ongoing Nakba and systemic dispossessions, this dialogue interrogates the novel as a technology of resistance,…

Claudia Rankine : Triage

Claudia Rankine first appeared on Between the Covers in 2014 to discuss Citizen: An American Lyric. Our first encounter back then was before January 6th or October 7th, before Trump 1.0 or Trump 2.0, before the public murder of George Floyd or the live-streamed genocide, before the fall of Roe v Wa…

Hajjar Baban : Low Flying Planes

Today’s guest, poet Hajjar Baban, discusses her truly remarkable debut collection of poetry Low Flying Planes. Together we explore Kurdish poetics, the role of silence, refusal and isolation in her work, the Kurdish Poets Collective, writing lineages, and much more. Selected for the 2025 National P…

Ep 41: Dear Curious Readers - Summer Postbag Special

As we bid farewell to Summer Break, we take questions from our listeners in a special post bag episode - and of course, we can’t help but make some recommendations along the way. And don’t worry, normal service will be resumed on 11 September when return to the mics for a deep dive into Ann Patche…

On introducing Edward Said: Isabella Hammad and Hisham Matar

Edward Said needs no introductions, but what happens when writers are asked to newly introduce the works that helped define his legacy? In this episode Isabella Hammad, who writes the introduction to a new edition of Said’s “Representations of the Intellectual,” and Hisham Matar, who does the same …

The Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi - Live from New York

We marked the publication of Ismail Khalidi’s SELECTED PLAYS with this special live event in New York recorded with the playwright and a selection of his special guests.  Tune in to hear excerpts from three of Khalidi’s plays, performed by Khalidi himself, Hind Shoufani, John Early, Ahmed Maher…

'We're Not Mad Enough' - Hannah Einbinder, Isabella Hammad, and Mahmoud Khalil LIVE in NYC

For the first-ever 'Beyond Israelism' LIVE event, host Simone Zimmerman sat down with Emmy award-winning actor and comedian Hannah Einbinder, British-Palestinian novelist Isabella Hammad, and Columbia University graduate and former ICE detainee Mahmoud Khalil at New York City's famous Riverside Chu…