Rifqa is a debut poems collection of Mohammed El-Kurd, which shows that the Palestinian struggle is a revolution, until victory. 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.
Rifqa
MOHAMMED EL-KURD is a writer, poet, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine.
Haymarket (First published, 2021)
xi + 98 pages
RM82.00
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Foreword: Love Is Older Than “Israel”
ONE
In Jerusalem
Who Lives in Sheikh Jarrah?
Born on Nakba Day
This Is Why We Dance
Girls in the Refugee Camp
Bulldozers Undoing God
Smuggling Bethlehem
A Song of Home
Portrait of My Nose
Rifqa
TWO
Wednesday
1948/1998
Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Killed for Attempting ‘to Kill a Soldier (with a Nail File), or Context
No Moses in Siege
Things I Cannot Say
Boy Sells Gum at Qalandiyah
Math
War Machines Dress Up as Drag Queens
Elderly Woman Falls Asleep on My Shoulder
Three Women
THREE
Laugh
Kroger
Autobiography
The Day Is Like Butter
Small Talk
Park Benches with Teeth
No Poetry in This
And They Leave and Never Leave
Amal Hayati
FOUR
Anti-Biography
Why Do You Speak of the Nakba at the Party?
Martyrs
Crows
Lice
Where Am I From Jerusalem?
Bush
The Biggest Punch Line of All Time 84
Sheikh Jarrah Is Burning
Farewell, Palestine’s Jasmine
Afterword: Lest There Be Unclarity
| Weight | 0.177 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 22.9 × 15.3 cm |
| Author(s) | |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2021 |
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