National Anthem by Mohamed Hassan
Broken Sleep Books
Published 30th November 2025.
Mohamed Hassan's National Anthem is a layered, politically charged collection that moves between lyric intimacy and cultural critique with clarity and force. Structured around refrains of migration, loss, racialisation, and belonging, the poems shift across geographies””from Aotearoa to Cairo to Istanbul””interrogating identity in the wake of empire, terrorism, and assimilation. With tonal dexterity and narrative precision, Hassan dissects the personal impacts of structural violence while preserving a grounded lyric voice. This is a work attentive to grief, satire, inheritance, and the quiet weight of diasporic memory.
Mohamed Hassan's National Anthem is a layered, politically charged collection that moves between lyric intimacy and cultural critique with clarity and force. Structured around refrains of migration, loss, racialisation, and belonging, the poems shift across geographies””from Aotearoa to Cairo to Istanbul””interrogating identity in the wake of empire, terrorism, and assimilation. With tonal dexterity and narrative precision, Hassan dissects the personal impacts of structural violence while preserving a grounded lyric voice. This is a work attentive to grief, satire, inheritance, and the quiet weight of diasporic memory.
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