First writing since af suheir hammad biography

American poet, author, and political activist

Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad in 2009
Born	(1973-10-25) October 25, 1973 (age 51) Amman, Jordan

Suheir Hammad (Arabic: سهير حماد) (born October 25, 1973) is an American poet, author, and political activist.

Biography

She was born in Amman, Jordan. Her parents were Palestinian refugees who immigrated along with their daughter to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old.

Very importantly, “First Writing Since” arguably both changed the succession of both Arab American literature and Arab American women's writing more.

12Suheir Hammad's “First Writing Since (Poem on Crisis of Terror)” was written just weeks after the attacks.

The poem First Writing Since was written by Suheir Hammad, a Palestinian-American poet who was born in Jordan on 25 October

She quickly produced the manuscript for “Drops” and “Born Palestinian, Born Black,” a collection of her poetry.

Suheir Hammad was born October in Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents.

Her parents later moved to Staten Island.^[1]

As an adolescent growing up in Brooklyn, Hammad was heavily influenced by Brooklyn's vibrant hip-hop scene. She had also absorbed the stories from her parents and grandparents of life in their hometown of Lydda, before the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, and of the suffering they endured afterward, first in the Gaza Strip and then in Jordan.

From these disparate influences Hammad was able to weave into her work a common narrative of dispossession, not