• Qalam Series

Kamila Shamsie in conversation with Isabella Hammad

Isabella Hammad is the author of Recognizing the Stranger and the novels The Parisian and Enter Ghost.

September 23, 2025 @ 5:30 PM 7:00 PM

Auditorium, Ground Floor, Georgetown University in Qatar

Picture of Isabella Hammad

About

Isabella Hammad is the author of Recognizing the Stranger and the novels The Parisian and Enter Ghost. She has received the Aspen Prize, the Clark Prize, and the Encore Award from the Royal Society of Literature among other prizes, and her work has been supported by the Lannan Foundation, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. She was the 2024-2025 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and she has taught literature and creative writing at NYU, Brown University, and Al Quds Bard College.

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