{"id":239,"date":"2006-03-13T09:37:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=239"},"modified":"2006-03-13T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T17:39:45","slug":"zaatardiva-a-conversation-with-suheir-hammad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/03\/13\/zaatardiva-a-conversation-with-suheir-hammad\/","title":{"rendered":"ZaatarDiva &#8211; a Conversation with Suheir Hammad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_13_hammad.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_13_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Palestinian American poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suheirhammad.com\/\">Suheir Hammad<\/a>, author of &#8220;ZaatarDiva&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suheirhammad.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/img.meetup.com\/photos\/event\/4\/4\/f\/5\/event_197653.jpeg\" alt=\"Suheir Hammad\" \/><\/a>Poet Suheir Hammad was born in Amman, Jordan to refugee Palestinian parents. She  immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, New York when she was just five years old. Inspired by poet-performers such as Nikki Giovanni, Hammad has traveled the world reciting her poetry in various venues and universities. Suheir was an original cast member of the Tony-award winning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In fact, she was the first Palestinian to star in a Broadway show, and she continues to be the first Palestinian in many artistic spaces throughout the States. Her writings have appeared in over a dozen anthologies. Suheir Hammad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest collection, entitled ZaatarDiva, is available in bookstores now. Author Elmaz Abinader has said of ZaaterDiva that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The humility and generosity of her poems lament our dead, chant our prayers, entice our love, inspire our revolutions and comfort our distressed eyes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suheirhammad.com\">www.suheirhammad.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Palestinian American poet Suheir Hammad, author of &#8220;ZaatarDiva&#8221; Poet Suheir Hammad was born in Amman, Jordan to refugee Palestinian parents. She immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, New York when she was just five years old. Inspired by poet-performers such as Nikki Giovanni, Hammad has traveled the world reciting her poetry in various venues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}