Navigating Intersectional Identities with Hamzeh Daoud

In today's episode, our host, Niveen Sayeed, is talking to Hamzeh Daoud about their experiences as a third-generation Palestinian refugee and their work to highlight and celebrate the experiences of the Queer Muslim community. An aspiring lawyer with a passion for movement-building, Hamzeh brings an honest and unflinching view of the hard work of empathy in the midst of trauma and fight for global liberation. 

Hamzeh leaves us with a challenge to fight for liberation not just nationally, but as part of a larger, global collective.

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Hamzeh Daoud
A Queer, Non-binary, disabled third-generation Palestinian refugee from Amman, Jordan, Hamzeh Daoud has their Masters in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, with an honors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.  At Stanford, Hamzeh started the first Queer and Muslim affinity group, and served as an undergraduate senator and chair of the advocacy committee, advocating for international first-generation, low-income students, Muslim students, and Palestinian students on campus. They were an active member of Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine and the Arab Student Association at Stanford. Hamzeh hopes to pursue a JD/PhD that combines their research interests in Arab Queer and Muslim Queer lives with their pursuit of a career in public interest law specifically serving Arab Queer and Muslim Queer refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers, and migrants domestically and internationally. Hamzeh is a lead researcher for Queer Crescent’s Presencing Ourselves: LGBTQI+ Muslim Survey.