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Waywords Studio May 7, 2025

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗥𝗶𝗳𝗾𝗮" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗹-𝗞𝘂𝗿𝗱 -

This is not easy reading, but poetry's role is not comfort but truth-telling, the articulation of what we often can not accept in prose. Rifqa is late and powerful, but its title, homage to grandmother and symbol of long resistance, speaks to how long we have turned away.

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Review: "Rifqa" by Mohammed El-Kurd -

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Waywords Studio Apr 15, 2025

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗥𝗶𝗳𝗾𝗮” 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗹-𝗞𝘂𝗿𝗱 -

El-Kurd's collection of poetry and Palestinian resistance is formed around homage to his grandmother, Rifqa, who fought in the original Nakba in 1948. Grieving, accusing, layered, it is at every level brutal in honesty.

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Waywords Studio Apr 5, 2025

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗥𝗶𝗳𝗾𝗮" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗹-𝗞𝘂𝗿𝗱 -

A poet from Palestine and from a tradition of global Resistance, El-Kurd explores his own role in history and contemporary dispossession. Rifqa is the poet's grandmother, an icon of resistance and of home, of identity and homage. "Somewhere in this poem / Edward Said throws a rock."

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