Recognizing the Stranger
with Isabella Hammad
Hosted by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh
In Person Streaming Politics History
Recognizing 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 deserves our thanks for sharing it with the world.
Join us for a conversation with Isabella Hammad, the award-winning author of the novels The Parisian and Enter Ghost and one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, about her new book, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative.
PLEASE NOTE: Isabella Hammad will be joining this event via video-link.
Nine days before October 7, 2023, Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. The text of her seminal speech and her afterword, written in the early weeks of 2024, together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what seems a turning point in the narrative of human history.
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