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Hey everybody. How you doing? Welcome to the Other People Show. It's good to be with you. My name is Brad Listy. I am in Los Angeles. Thank you for listening. I hope you're doing okay wherever you happen to be. Don't forget to subscribe to the Other People podcast wherever you're listening.

I have a great episode for you today. My guest is Isabella Hamad. Her new novel is called

Enter Ghost. There were some cases in the 70s and 80s where, you know, plays had to go through the military sensor.

Sometimes they were interrupted mid-scene by the army, they went off script.

You know, there was this real sense in that period that that theatre could be kind of a powerful tool to rouse a crowd,

you know, to get the masses to demonstrate or to awaken an audience to the conditions that they're living in.

And I think there's something quite interesting about considering theater having that kind of

power, which I don't think really we have anymore. I think that that era has passed. So it's also

sort of evoking some nostalgia for the for the heyday of powerful political theater.

Okay, that was Isabella Hamad. Her new novel is called EnterGhost, available now from Grove Press.

EnterGhost tells the story of Sonia Nasir, a woman of Palestinian descent, an actress who is returning to Israel in the wake of a

disastrous love affair. This is Sonia's first time back in Israel since the second Intifada. She's

been gone a long time and now she is staying in Haifa with her sister Hanin, with whom she has a loving

but difficult relationship.

And during her time in Israel, Sonia winds up becoming part of the cast of an Arabic language

production of Hamlet in the West Bank.

EnterGhost is a vividly rendered depiction of contemporary Palestine.

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