Ruby Hamad Ruby Hamad i(A120634 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Lebanese ; Syrian
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1 A Tempe Tale Ruby Hamad , 2022 single work prose
— Appears in: Family : Stories of Belonging 2022;
1 [Review] City of Gold Ruby Hamad , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 21-27 May 2022;

— Review of City of Gold Meyne Wyatt , 2019 single work drama

'At its heart, Meyne Wyatt’s City of Gold is about a family denied the right to grieve. By Ruby Hamad.' 

1 Filmmaker Eva Orner Ruby Hamad , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11-17 December 2021;
'Oscar-winning documentary-maker Eva Orner says that despite the dark places she explores, she never gives up hope. By Ruby Hamad.'
1 Author Amal Awad Ruby Hamad , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 28 August - 3 September 2021;

'Across fiction and nonfiction, Palestinian–Australian author Amal Awad refuses to limit her work with reductive expectations. By Ruby Hamad.' 

1 Novelist Claire Thomas Ruby Hamad , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 20-26 February 2021;

'In 2008, Australian author Claire Thomas published her acclaimed debut novel Fugitive Blue. Spanning five centuries, the narrative traces the fate of a Renaissance painting, the only legacy of an inexperienced artist doomed to obscurity.' (Introduction)

1 Projected Darkness Ruby Hamad , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 79 no. 3 2020;

'Picture it: Celtic Britain, circa 60 CE, in what is now Norfolk in eastern England. The unstoppable Roman Empire is consolidating the conquests begun 17 years earlier by Emperor Claudius. Its capital Camulodunum and vibrant settlements of Londinium and Verulamium lie forebodingly to the south-west. King Prasutagus, ruler of the Iceni and client ally of Rome, is nearing death without a male heir. Aware that Rome will likely seize his small kingdom and with it the nominal freedom of his tribe, Prasutagus, in a fit of wishful thinking, bequeaths half his kingdom to Emperor Nero and the other half to his two daughters. Nero has other ideas. He orders Prasutagus’s widow, Queen Boudica, to hand over full control of the kingdom, stripping the Iceni of their ally status for good measure. Boudica refuses. No self-respecting empire would tolerate such an insubordinate move: she is punished with a public flogging and the gang rape of her two teen daughters.' (Introduction)

1 An Unhappy Soul Ruby Hamad , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 78 no. 4 2019; (p. 223-225)

— Review of Intimate Antipathies Luke Carman , 2019 selected work essay

'Early into his new essay collection Intimate Antipathies, the follow-up to his NSW Premier’s Award–winning An Elegant Young Man, Luke Carman shares Gore Vidal’s theory on the two kinds of writer. The first is the true wordsmith; obsessed with mastering the art of language, their passion lies not in what they write about but how they write it. The second is the writer whose chosen vocation is a kind of belated therapy; theirs is a feverish but ultimately futile endeavour not to conquer the written word but to utilise it in the vain hope of overcoming some long-ago inflicted psychic damage.'(Introduction)

1 Shelf Reflection : Ruby Hamad Ruby Hamad , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , October 2019;
1 The Third Time I Broke My Father's Heart Ruby Hamad , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Arab, Australian, Other : Stories on Race and Identity 2019; (p. 7-14)
1 The Meaning of 'the Lebs' Ruby Hamad , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 78 no. 1 2019; (p. 76-81)

'Confronting. Controversial. Unrelenting. Edgy. When The Lebs, the second and most recent novel by Michael Mohammed Ahmad, was published a year ago it was amid a flurry of these adjectives from (mostly) white reviewers and interviewers. One descriptor that did not fly so readily from their keyboards, however, was ‘coming of age’.'  (Introduction)

1 Ali's Wedding : The Radical Muslim Rom-com That Breaks Stereotypes Ruby Hamad , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2017;

'Every now and then, a piece of art comes along to remind us that there is more than one way to appreciate it.'

1 Good Aussie Films a Thing of the Past Ruby Hamad , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 5 December vol. 18 no. 24 2008;
The author argues that Australian films need good scripts and characters in order to compete successfully with American releases.
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