A HUMAN VOICE January 29, 2008
Posted by wmmbb in Israel-Palestine, Modern History.trackback
The diaspora of the Palestinian people has taken them to many places, including Brooklyn, and then Staten Island, New York. Place exerts its strange chemistry on the expression of people in voice and style. Suheir Hammad was born a Palestinian – you know the people locked up like animals in Gaza, and denied basic essentials by the Jewish State, by people who seem to have forgotten that part of their history when they too were “the other”.
The inhabitants of Gaza – and Zaire and all the other man-made hell holes – are people too.
War, and whatever it is that motivates it, generates different responses. Here is Suheir Hammad, What I Will:
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