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In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: "Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punchline of all time."
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Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience.
With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and relentless horror of the Nakba.
El-Kurd's debut collection definitively shows that the Palestinian struggle is a revolution, until victory.
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Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd has been described as a powerful poetry collection that pays homage to Palestinian experiences while challenging the boundaries of poetic expression. Critics praise its raw and evocative language, highlighting themes of resistance, memory, and liberation. The book is seen as both a personal and political testament, weaving intimate narratives with a broader cultural and historical commentary. El-Kurd's ability to blend anger with hope, and the personal with the political, resonates strongly with readers, making it a significant contribution to contemporary poetry.
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ISBN: 9781642595864
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 October 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Foreword by Aja Monet
- Foreword by aja monet
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 228.0mm
Height: 152.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 100
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About the Author
Mohammed El-Kurd is an internationally-touring poet and writer from Jerusalem, Palestine. His work has been featured in The Guardian, This Week In Palestine, Al-Jazeera English, The Nation, and the forthcoming Vacuuming Away Fire anthology, among others. Mohammed graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Writing, where he created Radical Blankets, an award-winning multimedia poetry magazine. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College. His poetry-oud album, Bellydancing On Wounds, was released in collaboration with Palestinian musical artist Clarissa Bitar. Apart from poetry and writing, el-Kurd is a visual artist, printmaker, and most recently, co-designer of a fashion collection with Serbian designer Tina Gancev. Mohammed has spent his undergraduate weekends performing poetry at campuses and cultural centers across the United States and hopes to continue in the post-COVID-19 era.
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