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Mohammed El-Kurd

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Yes, yes. I don't have a preference whatsoever. I don't. You know, I saw Cornel West on CNN. I don't think, you know, I don't know if he's going to go far with his campaign. Cornel West is running with the Green Party, and I don't think he's going to achieve much success, but I saw him on CNN berating Anderson Cooper, and I enjoyed that very much. Wouldn't mind seeing that on my screen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Yes, yes. I don't have a preference whatsoever. I don't. You know, I saw Cornel West on CNN. I don't think, you know, I don't know if he's going to go far with his campaign. Cornel West is running with the Green Party, and I don't think he's going to achieve much success, but I saw him on CNN berating Anderson Cooper, and I enjoyed that very much. Wouldn't mind seeing that on my screen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Yes, yes. I don't have a preference whatsoever. I don't. You know, I saw Cornel West on CNN. I don't think, you know, I don't know if he's going to go far with his campaign. Cornel West is running with the Green Party, and I don't think he's going to achieve much success, but I saw him on CNN berating Anderson Cooper, and I enjoyed that very much. Wouldn't mind seeing that on my screen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Regularly, but don't really have an opinion about, you know,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Regularly, but don't really have an opinion about, you know,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

Regularly, but don't really have an opinion about, you know,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

I signed the book when I had a lot less visibility in the world. So when I didn't think thousands and thousands and thousands of people would be reading it, I decided to include many poems, which I wrote when I was young. Because it's a long journey, this book. It starts in Jerusalem, it goes to Atlanta, it goes back to Jerusalem, and then it ends in New York.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

I signed the book when I had a lot less visibility in the world. So when I didn't think thousands and thousands and thousands of people would be reading it, I decided to include many poems, which I wrote when I was young. Because it's a long journey, this book. It starts in Jerusalem, it goes to Atlanta, it goes back to Jerusalem, and then it ends in New York.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

I signed the book when I had a lot less visibility in the world. So when I didn't think thousands and thousands and thousands of people would be reading it, I decided to include many poems, which I wrote when I was young. Because it's a long journey, this book. It starts in Jerusalem, it goes to Atlanta, it goes back to Jerusalem, and then it ends in New York.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And Rifqa is the name of my grandmother. It's an Arabic name, a Hebrew name, and it means to accompany someone. And I wanted to write about displacement in a way that was beyond what we read about in English. Poetry as a medium, I don't know if I have much faith in it anymore, to be honest. Maybe I'm turned off by it, and I'll revisit it again in a few years.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And Rifqa is the name of my grandmother. It's an Arabic name, a Hebrew name, and it means to accompany someone. And I wanted to write about displacement in a way that was beyond what we read about in English. Poetry as a medium, I don't know if I have much faith in it anymore, to be honest. Maybe I'm turned off by it, and I'll revisit it again in a few years.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

And Rifqa is the name of my grandmother. It's an Arabic name, a Hebrew name, and it means to accompany someone. And I wanted to write about displacement in a way that was beyond what we read about in English. Poetry as a medium, I don't know if I have much faith in it anymore, to be honest. Maybe I'm turned off by it, and I'll revisit it again in a few years.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

But at the time of writing this book, Poetry as a Medium, it... really was a source of hope and inspiration for me. So my mother was a poet and she would, you know, her and my dad would play this game in the morning.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

But at the time of writing this book, Poetry as a Medium, it... really was a source of hope and inspiration for me. So my mother was a poet and she would, you know, her and my dad would play this game in the morning.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

But at the time of writing this book, Poetry as a Medium, it... really was a source of hope and inspiration for me. So my mother was a poet and she would, you know, her and my dad would play this game in the morning.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

She would read her poems to him and he would guess which lines would be red penciled by the Israeli military censor because she would submit her poems to the local newspaper, al-Quds newspaper. And you know, the military censor has to go over it. And, you know, she would get her poems back with a bunch of words erased and they would laugh about it. Blah, blah, blah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

She would read her poems to him and he would guess which lines would be red penciled by the Israeli military censor because she would submit her poems to the local newspaper, al-Quds newspaper. And you know, the military censor has to go over it. And, you know, she would get her poems back with a bunch of words erased and they would laugh about it. Blah, blah, blah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

She would read her poems to him and he would guess which lines would be red penciled by the Israeli military censor because she would submit her poems to the local newspaper, al-Quds newspaper. And you know, the military censor has to go over it. And, you know, she would get her poems back with a bunch of words erased and they would laugh about it. Blah, blah, blah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

So poetry was very much part of my upbringing. And, you know, as a Palestinian, when you're excluded from mainstream spaces, including media and journalism, poetry tends to be a place where you can say what you want to say without repercussions. And I say that, I realize that our greatest... Writer Ghassan Kanafani literally had his car bombed, exploded because of his writings.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

So poetry was very much part of my upbringing. And, you know, as a Palestinian, when you're excluded from mainstream spaces, including media and journalism, poetry tends to be a place where you can say what you want to say without repercussions. And I say that, I realize that our greatest... Writer Ghassan Kanafani literally had his car bombed, exploded because of his writings.