Perfect Victims: And The Politics Of Appeal

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Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusalan ode to the steadfastness of a nation.

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured-the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.

Why must Palestinians prove their humanity And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation.

presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.

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Praise for Rifqa

Mohammed El-Kurds poetry is a home returned to us
aja monet

These are poems that hurl themselves at the boundaries of what poems can do
Ahdaf Soueif

A symbolic masterpiece
The New Arab

Remarkable debut
Los Angeles Review of Books

The words that Mohammed assembles in his poems are snatched from clouds
Mondoweiss

We should be grateful that this is Kurds first book rather than his last, and that we can look forward to many decades of poetic innovation from this extraordinarily multifaceted and politically engaged poet
Middle East Eye

Author Bio

Mohammed El-Kurd is a writer, poet, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. He is the Nation's first-ever Palestine Correspondent and editor-at-large at Mondoweiss, the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and the author of the highly-acclaimed poetry collection Rifqa, which has been translated into several languages.