Rifqa

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‘Rifqa’ is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry. The book narrates the author’s own experience of dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah – an infamous neighbourhood 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 organisations.

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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.

Additional information

Weight 184 g
Dimensions 15.2 × 22.9 × 1.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Haymarket Books
Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

100
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

811.6 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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