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Isabella Hammad Quote: “We are all scarecrows turned philosophers,” he said, “with crows living under our hats.”

1. “We are all scarecrows turned philosophers,” he said, “with crows living under our hats.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “Stories of longing were the only stories. To desire was as good as to possess.”

2. “Stories of longing were the only stories. To desire was as good as to possess.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “You are not the first to make this error,” said Antoine. He adopted a pastoral air and interlaced his fingers: “But you know that a place cannot be virtuous. An idea may be virtuous. Not a place.”

3. “You are not the first to make this error,” said Antoine. He adopted a pastoral air and interlaced his fingers: “But you know that a place cannot be virtuous. An idea may be virtuous. Not a place.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “You know this sense that everyone around you is arguing,” he said. “When you are writing you are writing to one another, even to people who are dead. Even to people who are not alive yet.” “Well now,” said Antoine, “this is really the dream of the university!”

4. “You know this sense that everyone around you is arguing,” he said. “When you are writing you are writing to one another, even to people who are dead. Even to people who are not alive yet.” “Well now,” said Antoine, “this is really the dream of the university!”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “Perhaps a writer doesn’t need to have a clear sense of what her text will do in the world. Perhaps a writer can relax a bit. Perhaps it’s enough to ask a question, and hope, perhaps, to glimpse the meaning of that question in retrospect.”

5. “Perhaps a writer doesn’t need to have a clear sense of what her text will do in the world. Perhaps a writer can relax a bit. Perhaps it’s enough to ask a question, and hope, perhaps, to glimpse the meaning of that question in retrospect.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “The flow of history always exceeds the narrative frames we impose on it.”

6. “The flow of history always exceeds the narrative frames we impose on it.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “To recognise something is, then, to perceive clearly what on some level you have known all along, but that perhaps you did not want to know.”

7. “To recognise something is, then, to perceive clearly what on some level you have known all along, but that perhaps you did not want to know.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “The present onslaught leaves no space for mourning, since mourning requires an afterwards, but only for repeated shock and the ebb and flow of grief. We who are not there, witnessing from afar, in what ways are we mutilating ourselves when we dissociate to cope? To remain human at this juncture is to remain in agony. Let us remain there: it is the more honest place from which to speak.”

8. “The present onslaught leaves no space for mourning, since mourning requires an afterwards, but only for repeated shock and the ebb and flow of grief. We who are not there, witnessing from afar, in what ways are we mutilating ourselves when we dissociate to cope? To remain human at this juncture is to remain in agony. Let us remain there: it is the more honest place from which to speak.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “As I write this, a ceasefire has still not been called. I wonder what reality you now live in. From the point in time at which you read this, what do you say of the moment I am in? How large is the gulf between us?”

9. “As I write this, a ceasefire has still not been called. I wonder what reality you now live in. From the point in time at which you read this, what do you say of the moment I am in? How large is the gulf between us?”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “In today’s crisis of climate destruction, there will be moments – maybe they are happening right now, maybe they happened recently – that will later be narrated as turning points, when the devastating knowledge hits home to a greater and greater number that we are treating the earth as a slave, and that this exploitation is profoundly unethical. We are still seeking a language for this ethics.”

10. “In today’s crisis of climate destruction, there will be moments – maybe they are happening right now, maybe they happened recently – that will later be narrated as turning points, when the devastating knowledge hits home to a greater and greater number that we are treating the earth as a slave, and that this exploitation is profoundly unethical. We are still seeking a language for this ethics.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “How many Palestinians, asked Omar Barghouti, need to die for one soldier to have their epiphany?”

11. “How many Palestinians, asked Omar Barghouti, need to die for one soldier to have their epiphany?”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “It occurred to Midhat that a tragic story told quickly might contract easily into a comedy, and without the measure of its depths make the audience laugh.”

12. “It occurred to Midhat that a tragic story told quickly might contract easily into a comedy, and without the measure of its depths make the audience laugh.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “I was born a few months before the Nakba. You know this. You know what it means? It means it was already my reality. I didn’t know what it was before.”

13. “I was born a few months before the Nakba. You know this. You know what it means? It means it was already my reality. I didn’t know what it was before.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “And yet the pressure is again on Palestinians to tell the human story that will educate and enlighten others and so allow for the conversion of the repentant Westerner, who might then descend onto the stage if not as a hero then perhaps as some kind of deus ex machina.”

14. “And yet the pressure is again on Palestinians to tell the human story that will educate and enlighten others and so allow for the conversion of the repentant Westerner, who might then descend onto the stage if not as a hero then perhaps as some kind of deus ex machina.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “Maybe all’s fair in love and war. Only it’s not, is it? Not since the Geneva Convention.”

15. “Maybe all’s fair in love and war. Only it’s not, is it? Not since the Geneva Convention.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “The otherness that comes at you from the world has been inside you all along.”

16. “The otherness that comes at you from the world has been inside you all along.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “Once Palestinian voices began to reach wider audiences in the West, the story was quickly cast as a war of two opposing narratives, rather than a holistic and variegated history of European racism and empire and the ensuing and ongoing history of American empire, and the concomitant struggles for self-determination by colonised peoples, from Haiti to Algeria to Vietnam.”

17. “Once Palestinian voices began to reach wider audiences in the West, the story was quickly cast as a war of two opposing narratives, rather than a holistic and variegated history of European racism and empire and the ensuing and ongoing history of American empire, and the concomitant struggles for self-determination by colonised peoples, from Haiti to Algeria to Vietnam.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “Haneen once compared Palestine to an exposed part of an electronic network, where someone has cut the rubber coating with a knife to show the wires and currents underneath. She probably didn’t say that exactly, but that was the image she had brought into my mind. That this place revealed something about the whole world.”

18. “Haneen once compared Palestine to an exposed part of an electronic network, where someone has cut the rubber coating with a knife to show the wires and currents underneath. She probably didn’t say that exactly, but that was the image she had brought into my mind. That this place revealed something about the whole world.”

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Isabella Hammad Quote: “It is a novel horror in human history to watch a genocidal war on our phones. For men, women, and children, scholars, artists, and journalists to live-tweet the moments before they are killed.”

19. “It is a novel horror in human history to watch a genocidal war on our phones. For men, women, and children, scholars, artists, and journalists to live-tweet the moments before they are killed.”

— Isabella Hammad

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