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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