Rifqa

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.

About the author

Mohammed El-Kurd is a writer, poet, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. He is the Nation's first-ever Palestine Correspondent and editor-at-large at Mondoweiss, the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and the author of the highly-acclaimed poetry collection Rifqa, which has been translated into several languages.

Summary

In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: "Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punchline of all time."

Foreword

Galley mailing to reps, media; Social media influencer campaign to promote the book; Pitch editors for print, podcast, radio and TV interviews; Pitch interviews and excerpts to: The Nation, Al-Jezeera, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, New York Times, Jewish Currents, Guardian, and many more; national & (virtual) international tour of conferences, universities, bookstores and libraries

Product details

• Authors: Mohammed El-Kurd
• Assisted by: aja monet (Foreword), Monet Aja (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781642596601
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-660-1
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 152 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POETRY / Middle Eastern, Poetry / Poems