Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd Hannah Sullivan lyric and effortlessly readable story

lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging

deploys beauty to heal trauma

resistance and poetry as a political paradigm

A selected bibliography of works by and about the poet

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd Hannah Sullivan lyric and effortlessly readable storyEach 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