Description
In this debut collection, Mohammed El-Kurd turns poetry into testimony, tracing his own experience of dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah—where families live under the constant threat of eviction and demolition. Named for his late grandmother, who was forced to flee Haifa during the founding violence of Israel, the poems connect personal memory to a wider history of displacement across Palestine. Written in the spirit of Palestinian resistance literature, the collection argues that today’s home takeovers are not echoes of 1948 but its continuation—an ongoing, legalized, ideologically driven form of ethnic cleansing. Through lyrical intensity and moral clarity, Rifqa explores themes of home, inheritance, resistance, and the enduring struggle to remain human in the face of erasure.
Available Editions
paperback
Haymarket Books
Published Oct 12, 2021
105 pages
ISBN: 9781642596830
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there is no room for neutrality. there is no fence to straddle, middle of the road, both sides argument to make. humanity seeks the immediate and permanent liberation of palestine, the dissolution of the israeli settler colony, and the end of western imperialism and colonialism across the globe. god willing, in my lifetime i will see a free palestine, a right to return, and israel alongside the global west will be held accountable for their war crimes. for rifqa. for mohammaed. for hind. for sidra. for refaat. for 12 universities. for 97 journalists. for over 34,000 palestinians. for the enduring culture, hope, faith, and dreams of palestine that israel has never been able to crush.
Details
First Published
2021
Language
eng
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