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    Rifqa
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    Rifqa

    By Mohammed El-Kurd

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    Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanafani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature. The book narrates the author’s own experience of dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah--an infamous neighborhood in Jerusalem, Palestine, whose population of refugees continues to live on the brink of homelessness at the hands of the Israeli government and US-based settler organizations. The book, named after the author’s late grandmother who was forced to flee from Haifa upon the genocidal establishment of Israel, makes the observation that home takeovers and demolitions across historical Palestine are not reminiscent of 1948 Nakba, but are in fact a continuation of it: a legalized, ideologically-driven practice of ethnic cleansing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHaymarket Books
    Release dateOct 12, 2021
    ISBN9781642596830
    Rifqa
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    Mohammed El-Kurd

    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.

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    • 5/5
      A fantastic read of 2024. I am speechless. God why?
    • 5/5
      Beautiful. Fantastic read. Words that move you to cry, act, or both.
    • 5/5
      Wow! What a talented poet ?✨️ highly recommend, though it's very sad
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      Perfection !
      I loved this book a lot! Recommend it
    • 5/5
      Filled with Gems, this book is a must-read for everyone!
    • 5/5
      An incredibly powerful and potent call to arms. Free Palestine.
    • 5/5
      My heart hurts reading this collection of poems. This is a work of literature that needs to be taught, so that we don’t keep failing them.

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