Isabella Hammad

[8] The Guardian described her second book, Enter Ghost, as being "a story of Palestine, driven by questions of identity and belonging.

"[12] It was shortlisted for the 2024 Encore Award, given by the Royal Society of Literature to celebrate the "difficult second novel" that follows an author's literary debut,[13] going on to be chosen as the winner.

[11] She was a speaker at the Palestine Writes Literature Festival[17] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 22 September 2023.

She delivered the Edward Said Memorial Lecture, entitled "Recognizing the Stranger", at Columbia University at the end of September 2023.

[18] She was elected a 2024–2025 Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.