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Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; "This Is Why We Dance"
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Palestinian Own Voices Reading List
If you’re looking for books to read to help support Palestine and Palestinians through this current aggression and genocidal actions, I’ve created a list for you to look through. These books are all available through Bookshop.org, and may be available through your local libraries.
My Father Was A Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, by Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape, by Raja Shehadeh
In the Presence of Absence, by Richard Widerkehr
On Zionist Literature, by Ghassan Kanafani
Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, by Sonia Nimir
Power Born of Dreams: My Story Is Palestine, by Mohammad Sabaaneh
Stories Under Occupation: And Other Plays from Palestine, by Samer Al-Saber
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank, by Kareem Rabie
Rifqa, by Mohammed El-Kurd
Of Noble Origins: A Palestinian Novel, by Sahar Khalifeh
My First and Only Love, by Sahar Khalifeh
Salt Houses, by Hala Alyan
L.J. Stanton
#book list#book recommendations#Palestinian books#Palestine#Palestinian authors#support Palestine#my father was a freedom fighter book#palestinian walks#in the presenceo f absence#on zionist literature#wondrous journeys in strange lands#power born of dreams: my story is palestine#stories under occupation: and other plays from palestine#palestine is throwing a party#rifqa#of noble origins#my first and only love#salt houses
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"The youth reminded me with firework spectacle: decolonization is not an abstract theory. See: The soldier with a stone in his fascist face. The colonizer car in flames. Surveillance cameras smashed. "Checkpoints" emptied out of their gatekeepers. I stand in awe of the hail."
- Mohammed El-Kurd, "Sheikh Jarrah Is Burning," from "Rifqa."
#free palestine#free gaza#i stand with palestine#palestine#gaza#palestinian poets#palestinian poetry#poetry#mohammed el kurd#rifqa#decolonization#resistance
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Mohammed El-Kurd, “This Is Why We Dance” from Rifqa
Alt ID: This is why we dance:
My father told me: "Anger is a luxury we cannot afford.
Be composed, calm, still-
-laugh when they ask you,
smile when they talk, answer them,
educate them.
This is why we dance:
If I speak, I'm dangerous.
You open your mouth,
raise your eyebrows.
You point your fingers.
This is why we dance:
We have wounded feet but the rhythm remains,
no matter the adjectives on my shoulders.
This is why we dance:
Because screaming isn't free.
Please tell me:
Why is anger-even anger-a luxury
to me?
#rifqa#poetry#poems#poetry collection#words#mine#quotes#mohammed el kurd#on anger on refuge on colonisation and the loss of home#poets on tumblr#literature#litblr#anger as a luxury
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This poetry collection is putting me into a very thoughtful headspace. Mohammed El-Kurd’s book is all about how the Palestinian struggle is revolutionary. How important it is to be aware and act.
The birds sit at the feeder, a house finch eats the seed given to it.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🍉
#godzilla reads#rifqa#mohammed el kurd#poetry#poetry collection#Palestinian authors#palestinian literature#book blog#book blurb#booklr#bookworm#reading
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"A soldier as old as a leaf born yesterday pulls a trigger on a woman older than his heritage." —Rifqa, Mohammed Al-kurd
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There is no poetry in suicide and
no poetry in cigarettes,
yet
so many poets break their lines with threats of triggers,
break their lines with cliffs.
Poets break their necks below cliffs.
Many find refuge in rifts.
Many find rhymes in death and sing
a little of a lullaby—a dwelling,
a swimming in mourning,
whisper in each other’s ears, around writing tables, their wills.
There is no beauty in this.
Mohammed El-Kurd, from ‘No Poetry in This’, published in Rifqa
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This ode to his Teta broke my heart.
💖 الله يرحمها
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Rifqa - Mohamed el Kurd
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Keep me / by your side, keep me. / In your heart's embrace / keep me
—from 'Amal Hayati' in the debut poetry collection Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
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—Mohammed El-Kurd, “Rifqa”
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Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa
13: The term Naksa (Arabic for setback) refers to the 1967 War (June 5–11, 1967) between “Israel” on one side and Syria, Jordan, and Egypt on the other. In this war, “Israel” occupied the rest of Palestine (the West Bank, including the eastern part of Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip), Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula (returned in the 1980s), and the Golan Heights (still under occupation). The Naksa marks the second half of the Zionist colonial project.
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Poetry
Life under occupation, displacement, Palestinian history and resistance
Favorite poems: "Born on Nakba Day," "This Is Why We Dance
Bulldozers Undoing God," "Rifqa," "No Moses in Siege," "Boy Sells Gum at Qalandiyah," "Autobiography"
Palestinian author
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"A dozen Kyle Rittenhouses patrol my street. Cowards if not for their M-16s."
-Mohammed El-Kurd, "Sheikh Jarrah Is Burning," from "Rifqa"
#free palestine#free gaza#i stand with palestine#palestine#gaza#palestinian poetry#mohammed el kurd#rifqa#poetry#palestinian poets#us politics
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excerpt from Wednesday, in Mohammed el-Kurd's collection "Rifqa"
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🇵🇸 Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
Mohammed El-Kurd dedicates these poems to his grandmother Rifqa, who was a solid force of Palestinian resilience. El-Kurd writes lyrically and I love how he uses the space of the page to say what he needs to say. His poems are powerful, they call us to action, and tell us to look forward to a future hope of Palestinian liberation. Highly recommend!
“Above all, although this book isn’t an attempt to free Palestine, its central thesis is that Palestine, in its historical entirety, must be liberated by any means necessary.”
#godzilla reads#rifqa#mohammed el kurd#book review#poetry books#Palestinian Authors#free palestine#read palestine#booklr#bookworm#reading#bookish#book blog
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