National Anthem

By Mohamed Hassan

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1917617437
• ISBN13: 9781917617437
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"