Isabella Hammad: I heard Edward Said speak when I was seven'
Briefly

"I don't think of myself as an essayist, and I haven't written many essays; when I have, they've been like this lecture, a creative act involving literary criticism, not straight journalism."
"Obviously, there's a genocide right now: that's why I've been moved to write [nonfiction], just as a person and a human in the world who has felt that need."
Read at www.theguardian.com
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