# E16 - Enter Ghost/Entra il fantasma  (Isabella Hammad & Maurizia Balmelli)

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Podcast: [MEMORY FOR DENIAL](https://stenobird.com/podcast/memory-for-denial-7121022)
Published: 2025-10-30T13:23:29+00:00
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## Resource

Maurizia Balmelli reads an extract from her Italian translation of Isabella Hammad's novel Enter Ghost in which a UK-Palestinian theatre actress makes a journey to her homeland and becomes involved in an attempt to stage an Arabic-language production of "Hamlet" in the West-Bank. Thank you so much Maurizia! Free, free Palestine! ABOUT THE BOOK https://www.marsilioeditori.it/libri/scheda-libro/2979185/entra-il-fantasma READ A CHAPTER IN ENGLISH https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/extract-ghost-isabella-hammad

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