Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

Rifqa by Mohammed El-KurdEach 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

the violent and the utterly corrupt

A book that opens your eyes is a rate one indeed' Claire Kilroy

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad

Sylvia Plath's only novel

so does the real one

which deal with perception

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is a history of people

as much of the world succumbs to authoritarianism and democracy is undermined from its heart

unflinching interest and spoke openly to her about life in their open-air prison

Drawing on his own work as a clinical psychologist and on lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories

and will be on your guard for artificial intruders before you know it