As an adolescent growing up in Brooklyn, Hammad was heavily influenced by Brooklyn's vibranthip-hop scene. She had also absorbed the stories from her parents and grandparents of life in their hometown ofLydda, before the1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, and of the suffering they endured afterward, first in theGaza Strip and then inJordan. 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 aMuslim, but as a woman struggling against society's inherentsexism and as a poet in her own right.
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