Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd (English) Paperback Book

Description: Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: "Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punchline of all time." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurds debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfanis Palestinian Resistance Literature. The book narrates the authors 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 authors 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. Author Biography Mohammed El-Kurd is an internationally-touring poet and writer from Jerusalem, Palestine. His work has been featured in The Guardian, This Week In Palestine, Al-Jazeera English, The Nation, and the forthcoming Vacuuming Away Fire anthology, among others. Mohammed graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Writing, where he created Radical Blankets, an award-winning multimedia poetry magazine. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College. His poetry-oud album, Bellydancing On Wounds, was released in collaboration with Palestinian musical artist Clarissa Bitar. Apart from poetry and writing, el-Kurd is a visual artist, printmaker, and most recently, co-designer of a fashion collection with Serbian designer Tina Gancev. Mohammed has spent his undergraduate weekends performing poetry at campuses and cultural centers across the United States and hopes to continue in the post-COVID-19 era. Review "May these poems challenge and awaken you. May they shake you into action. May they help you find the words for what you already know to be true... These words remind me that home is a series of shared memories, not brick and mortar. Home is where we go to remember and revisit who weve always been. Mohammed El-Kurds poetry is a home returned to us."-aja monet, from the foreword"Rooted in Palestine and ranging across the world, these are poems that hurl themselves at the boundaries of what poems can do; lyrics that put a premium on anger, that reflect the serrated edges of living in the world today, that gift new and powerful phrases to the lexicon of liberation."--Ahdaf Soueif, author of Cairo: My City, Our Revolution"Rifqa is an absolute marvel, and El-Kurdis precisely the kind of poet-- Palestinian or otherwise--we need right now: unafraid of the truth. The legacy of his grandmother, the eponymous Rifqa, flits across these poems, and with it comes wisdom, hope, and, most cruciallyof all, memory ... El-Kurd doesnt flinch from the violence and death that comeswith dispossession. But make no mistake. These are the poems of the defiantly, unapologetically, wholly alive." --Hala Alyan, author, The Arsonists City "Rifqa is an admixture of the mostintimate violence--wounds that are as difficult to reveal as they are toheal--together with song and dance that beseech the sun to sustain this life andthese lands that ensure it. Rifqa El-Kurd lives in Mohammed and Mohammedbreathes life into us, scented with fire and jasmine flowers, so that we mayknow her, and the victory she embodied, too." --Noura Erekat, author, Justice for Some: Law and the Question ofPalestine "Rifqa is the collision of strengthand vulnerability. Earnest in its exploration of the grave realities in onecorner of the globe, it is a banging on the doors of the world. It illustratesthe wit that is necessary to weave together the tragic with the hopeful and thepainful with the joyful. Rifqa is a testament to overcoming fear in expression, a book that will resonate with you, one you hold and return to over and overagain." --Mariam Barghouti, journalist, researcher, activist, and commentator "Palestinians have long fought with poetry. Napoleons army in Palestine wasdefeated by warrior poets. El-Kurds words are part of this long and dazzlinglineage. An elegy to our ancestors, maternal, whose resistance we hope tohonor, each poem is a rock hurled at the occupier and the oppressor. Abeautiful and important book." --Randa Jarrar, author, Love Is an Ex-Country "Mohammed El-Kurd weaves the ancestors and Land into every breath of thesepoems. Every grandmother is a Jerusalem, El-Kurd reminds us, injasmine-scented memory, in liminal space and punch line, in auto- andanti-biography. Here is poetry the whole of us can turn and return to--even ingrief, even in contradiction. Liberating itself from respectability & othercolonialist gazes weaponized against Palestinians, here is poetry insistent ontruths weve carried for generations. JERUSALEM IS OURS. El-Kurd writes thiswith its whole chest, knowing our lives--the whole & future of us--depend onit. --George Abraham, author, Birthright "El-Kurds poems are attuned to language as a terrain of struggle.Refusing the myriad euphemisms that conceal and authorize Israel Promotional 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 Long Description Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurds 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 Rifqas exile from Haifa to his familys current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and relentless horror of the Nakba. El-Kurds debut collection definitively shows that the Palestinian struggle is a revolution, until victory. Review Quote "May these poems challenge and awaken you. May they shake you into action. May they help you find the words for what you already know to be true... These words remind me that home is a series of shared memories, not brick and mortar. Home is where we go to remember and revisit who weve always been. Mohammed El-Kurds poetry is a home returned to us." --Aja Monet, from the foreword "Rooted in Palestine and ranging across the world, these are poems that hurl themselves at the boundaries of what poems can do; lyrics that put a premium on anger, that reflect the serrated edges of living in the world today, that gift new and powerful phrases to the lexicon of liberation." --Ahdaf Soueif, author of Cairo: My City, Our Revolution " Rifqa is an absolute marvel, and El-Kurdis precisely the kind of poet-- Palestinian or otherwise--we need right now:unafraid of the truth. The legacy of his grandmother, the eponymous Rifqa,flits across these poems, and with it comes wisdom, hope, and, most cruciallyof all, memory ... El-Kurd doesnt flinch from the violence and death that comeswith dispossession. But make no mistake. These are the poems of the defiantly,unapologetically, wholly alive." --Hala Alyan, author, The Arsonists City " Rifqa is an admixture of the mostintimate violence--wounds that are as difficult to reveal as they are toheal--together with song and dance that beseech the sun to sustain this life andthese lands that ensure it. Rifqa El-Kurd lives in Mohammed and Mohammedbreathes life into us, scented with fire and jasmine flowers, so that we mayknow her, and the victory she embodied, too." --Noura Erekat, author, Justice for Some: Law and the Question ofPalestine " Rifqa is the collision of strengthand vulnerability. Earnest in its exploration of the grave realities in onecorner of the globe, it is a banging on the doors of the world. It illustratesthe wit that is necessary to weave together the tragic with the hopeful and thepainful with the joyful. Rifqa is a testament to overcoming fear in expression,a book that will resonate with you, one you hold and return to over and overagain." --Mariam Barghouti, journalist,researcher, activist, and commentator "Palestinians have long fought with poetry. Napoleons army in Palestine wasdefeated by warrior poets. El-Kurds words are part of this long and dazzlinglineage. An elegy to our ancestors, maternal, whose resistance we hope tohonor, each poem is a rock hurled at the occupier and the oppressor. Abeautiful and important book." --Randa Jarrar, author, Love Is an Ex-Country "Mohammed El-Kurd weaves the ancestors and Land into every breath of thesepoems. Every grandmother is a Jerusalem, El-Kurd reminds us, injasmine-scented memory, in liminal space and punch line, in auto- andanti-biography. Here is poetry the whole of us can turn and return to--even ingrief, even in contradiction. Liberating itself from respectability & othercolonialist gazes weaponized against Palestinians, here is poetry insistent ontruths weve carried for generations. JERUSALEM IS OURS. El-Kurd writes thiswith its whole chest, knowing our lives--the whole & future of us--depend onit. --George Abraham, author, Birthright "El-Kurds poems are attuned to language as a terrain of struggle.Refusing the myriad euphemisms that conceal and authorize Israels ongoingviolence, he insists on a clarity that emplots each act in a field of history ...But if El-Kurds poems witness the relentless reiterations of settler colonialviolence, they also document the rebuttals and tendernesses--Mahfoutha Ishtayyehchaining herself to a tree, "olive skin on olive skin," in the face of anIsraeli bulldozer; Rifqa El-Kurd welcoming her grandson home from school each daywith jasmine wrapped in Kleenex--seeds of other futures nestled within thepresent." -- JewishCurrents "Paying powerful homage to his Palestinian peoples lives andstruggles, while elegantly educating the reader, Mohammed El-Kurds debutpoetry collection, Rifqa , is a symbolic masterpiece ... The poet understandspolitics is as much about emotion as it is logic, and his devastating way withwords lets him deploy this knowledge in full." -- TheNew Arab "Like other Palestinian poets, from Fadwa Tuqan to Rashid Hossein toMahmoud Darwish, Kurd has a significant role to play in forging aninternational front against settler-colonialism and imperialism around theworld ... We should be grateful that this is Kurds first book rather than hislast, and that we can look forward to many decades of poetic innovation fromthis extraordinarily multifaceted and politically engaged poet." -- MiddleEast Eye At24, Mohammed El-Kurd is already a poet of note. He is also a visual artist, andan activist like Rifqa. He has synthesized and overcome his American educationin poetry. He no longer feels like he has to hide in his words. -- The Markaz Review Description for Sales People Mohammed El-Kurd is widely recognized as representing a new generation of activists in the Palestinian freedom struggle. During the Palestinian uprising of summer 2021, Mohammed El-Kurds social media accounts gave an unfiltered glimpse of the struggle from the ground. He regularly shares updates from Sheikh Jarrah, and political perspectives on the Palestinian struggle, with his more than 750,000 Instagram followers, and 250,000 Twitter followers. Along with his sister, fellow activist Muna El-Kurd, he was named as one of TIME Magazines 100 Most Influential people of 2021. In fall 2021, he was named the Nation s first-ever Palestine correspondent. Details ISBN1642595861 Author Mohammed El-Kurd Pages 100 Publisher Haymarket Books Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1642595861 ISBN-13 9781642595864 Format Paperback Audience General/Trade Imprint Haymarket Books Place of Publication Chicago Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-10-28 AU Release Date 2021-10-28 NZ Release Date 2021-10-28 US Release Date 2021-10-28 UK Release Date 2021-10-28 DEWEY 811.6 Alternative 9781642596601 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135182194;

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