Isabella Hammad

An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle, Edward Said and the power of narrative. From the Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted and RSL Encore Award-winning author of Enter Ghost Award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University nine days before 7 October 2023. The text of Hammad's seminal...

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. Magnificent OBSERVER Different to anything else being written right now in English SUNDAY TIMES A pretty flawless writer THE TIMES After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older...

A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith). 'A sublime reading experience—delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful.' — Zadie Smith WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020 Midhat Kamal—dreamer, romantic, aesthete—leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls...