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 only in her capacity as an immigrant, a Palestinian and a
Muslim, but as a woman struggling against society's inherent
sexism and as a poet in her own right.
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