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          The search for ethnic identity in Suheir Hammad's Born Palestinian,.

        1. The search for ethnic identity in Suheir Hammad's Born Palestinian,.
        2. I am one of 6 artists currently shortlisted to create a slavery memorial to the victims of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade at the Museum of London Docklands.
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        4. Suheir Hammad, the Palestinian-American author of Born.
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          Drops of Suheir Hammad: A Talk with a Palestinian Poet Born Black


          She says that she avoids labels. She believes that we are here for a reason, and she feels that writing unifies her with God.

          She says that she is simply to be called Suheir.

          Suheir Hammad was born October 1973 in Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when she was a child, and she grew up among numerous minority groups—Puerto Ricans, African-Americans, Dominicans, Haitians.

          Hammad, Suheir.

          Her profound desire to transcend cultural and religious barriers have given birth to a poet who unifies diversity. Hammad illustrates in a unique manner her different lives and her union with people of many cultures, with the world, with poetry, and with God.

          She says she remembers, “the first time I wrapped my hair in a gele, an African head wrap. Using material from Senegal, I wanted to wrap myself in the beauty of sisterhood. The ancestors remembered my name and whispered it to me under the material