Mohammed El-Kurd

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.

And, you know, recently Darin Tatur, a Palestinian poet with an Israeli citizenship, was imprisoned for a few months for publishing a poem on Facebook in which he said, resist my people, resist. So even that is not necessarily true. But anyway, it just felt like it's a place where I could talk and express large ideas in a simplistic way.

And, you know, recently Darin Tatur, a Palestinian poet with an Israeli citizenship, was imprisoned for a few months for publishing a poem on Facebook in which he said, resist my people, resist. So even that is not necessarily true. But anyway, it just felt like it's a place where I could talk and express large ideas in a simplistic way.

And, you know, recently Darin Tatur, a Palestinian poet with an Israeli citizenship, was imprisoned for a few months for publishing a poem on Facebook in which he said, resist my people, resist. So even that is not necessarily true. But anyway, it just felt like it's a place where I could talk and express large ideas in a simplistic way.

And the best example I could give you is one of my favorite poets, Rashid Hussain. When the Israeli authorities decided to do the land law, which classified, I believe, 93% of historic Palestine as Israeli-owned, state-owned, forgive me.

And the best example I could give you is one of my favorite poets, Rashid Hussain. When the Israeli authorities decided to do the land law, which classified, I believe, 93% of historic Palestine as Israeli-owned, state-owned, forgive me.

And the best example I could give you is one of my favorite poets, Rashid Hussain. When the Israeli authorities decided to do the land law, which classified, I believe, 93% of historic Palestine as Israeli-owned, state-owned, forgive me.

And then when they also did the absentee property law, which allows the Israeli government to take over homes that were depopulated from the Palestinian owners, he wrote a poem called God is a Refugee. It's a kind of a sarcastic, sardonic poem in which he goes, you know, God has become a refugee, sir.

And then when they also did the absentee property law, which allows the Israeli government to take over homes that were depopulated from the Palestinian owners, he wrote a poem called God is a Refugee. It's a kind of a sarcastic, sardonic poem in which he goes, you know, God has become a refugee, sir.

And then when they also did the absentee property law, which allows the Israeli government to take over homes that were depopulated from the Palestinian owners, he wrote a poem called God is a Refugee. It's a kind of a sarcastic, sardonic poem in which he goes, you know, God has become a refugee, sir.

So confiscate even the carpet of the mosque and sell the church because it's his property and sell our orphans because their father is absent and do whatever you want. It's a sarcastic poem that was in reaction to these laws.

So confiscate even the carpet of the mosque and sell the church because it's his property and sell our orphans because their father is absent and do whatever you want. It's a sarcastic poem that was in reaction to these laws.

So confiscate even the carpet of the mosque and sell the church because it's his property and sell our orphans because their father is absent and do whatever you want. It's a sarcastic poem that was in reaction to these laws.

that translated to the everyday Palestinian, to the farmers, to the landowners, what these bureaucratic, complicated laws meant to them, what they meant to their land, what it meant, what effect are these laws going to have on these people's lands? And that, I think, is the role of poetry that I try to achieve.

that translated to the everyday Palestinian, to the farmers, to the landowners, what these bureaucratic, complicated laws meant to them, what they meant to their land, what it meant, what effect are these laws going to have on these people's lands? And that, I think, is the role of poetry that I try to achieve.

that translated to the everyday Palestinian, to the farmers, to the landowners, what these bureaucratic, complicated laws meant to them, what they meant to their land, what it meant, what effect are these laws going to have on these people's lands? And that, I think, is the role of poetry that I try to achieve.

memoir is bizarre because, you know, I'm so young. So it's not really my memoir, but rather a memoir of the neighborhood which I grew up. The title, the tentative title is A Million States in One. And it's a nod to how many different realities and universes exist in this tiny one country. And it's, you know, it's kind of...

memoir is bizarre because, you know, I'm so young. So it's not really my memoir, but rather a memoir of the neighborhood which I grew up. The title, the tentative title is A Million States in One. And it's a nod to how many different realities and universes exist in this tiny one country. And it's, you know, it's kind of...

memoir is bizarre because, you know, I'm so young. So it's not really my memoir, but rather a memoir of the neighborhood which I grew up. The title, the tentative title is A Million States in One. And it's a nod to how many different realities and universes exist in this tiny one country. And it's, you know, it's kind of...

It's kind of a documentation of the two waves of expulsion in 2009 and 2020 and 2021. And the kind of behind the scenes of the campaign that took place, the diplomatic and media campaign and grassroots campaign that took place to save our homes. And it's also an exploration of other...