Mohammed El-Kurd

Jerusalem

Palestine Correspondent at The Nation

Writer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. Palestine Correspondent at the Nation, editor-at-large at Mondoweiss. Preorder “Perfect Victims” using the link below

Articles

What’s Really Happening in Palestine

3 weeks ago | scheerpost.com | Yanis Varoufakis |Mohammed El-Kurd

By Yanis Varoufakis and Mohammed El-Kurd / DiEM25Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza. Entire families are being wiped out, famine is spreading, and airstrikes are targeting shelters and schools. In the West Bank, killings and settler violence are surging as Israel tightens its grip on the territory. Yet despite these atrocities, international media coverage has diminished. While a handful of European governments have begun to question their complicity, meaningful action is still missing.
What’s Really Happening in Palestine

3 weeks ago | znetwork.org | Mohammed El-Kurd |Yanis Varoufakis |Mehran Khalili

Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza. Entire families are being wiped out, famine is spreading, and airstrikes are targeting shelters and schools. In the West Bank, killings and settler violence are surging as Israel tightens its grip on the territory. Yet despite these atrocities, international media coverage has diminished. While a handful of European governments have begun to question their complicity, meaningful action is still missing.
Mohammed El-Kurd's Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal

Feb 26, 2025 | newarab.com | Elias Jahshan |Mohammed El-Kurd

When the Gaza genocide started, one of the first things Mohammed El-Kurd noticed was Palestinians and allies once again falling into a loop of auditioning for the world's empathy. A sense of déjà-vu prompted the acclaimed poet and activist to put his thoughts to paper, marking the foundations of what would eventually become Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, El-Kurd's second book since his 2021 poetry collection .
Radical faith, hope and gratitude

Jan 18, 2025 | radicalbookscollective.substack.com | Mohammed El-Kurd |Safia Elhillo |Omar Al Akkad

We have a ceasefire for Gaza. I have said and written these words before. While this is a huge relief on one level, I also woke up to the news that 87 people were killed right as the deal was signed and 23 of these were children. Cautious optimism and held breaths prevail because Israel and the US remain bad faith actors, and savagery has always been their modus operandi. I cannot help but reflect on what happened one year ago this week.
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Nov 3, 2024 | rizzolibookstore.com | Mohammed El-Kurd |Guy Trebay |Yuval Harari |Nicky Hayes

Mohammed El-Kurd's highly anticipated nonfiction debut, a scathing examination of "humanization" as a political tactic of the marginalized and their allies, and a powerful call to build advocacy strategies rooted in dignity and defiance. Mohammed El-Kurd's highly anticipated nonfiction debut, a scathing examination of "humanization" as a political tactic of the marginalized and their allies, and a powerful call to build advocacy strategies rooted in dignity and defiance.
Perfect Victims a book by Mohammed El-Kurd - Bookshop.org US

Nov 3, 2024 | bookshop.org | Mohammed El-Kurd

This title will be released onFebruary 11, 2025Add to WishlistBookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the worldDescription"Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century." --Robin D. G. KelleyPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified.
In Bad Faith: A Satire

Jul 10, 2024 | mondoweiss.net | Mohammed El-Kurd

When a Palestinian is brought onto Western media to talk about what’s happening in Palestine, it’s never in good faith. This video satirizes the hostile and bad-faith questions that Palestinians confront during mainstream media interviews. Corporate journalists often ignore the material realities on the ground—occupation, colonialism, siege, and genocide.
Nazar Boy

Jun 11, 2024 | haymarketbooks.org | Tarik Dobbs |Mohammed El-Kurd |Noor Hindi |Justin Rovillos Monson

From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and powerful lyricism. Tarik Dobbs’s work explores surveillance, queerness, disability, race, and working-class identity in post-9/11 America. As an Arab American writer, Dobbs is achingly familiar with the power dynamics, violence, and capitalistic undercurrents woven through the language of the colonizer.
Colonos judíos se robaron mi casa. No es mi culpa que sean judíos

May 22, 2024 | ctxt.es | Mohammed El-Kurd

Cuando éramos chicos en la Jerusalén ocupada, los que querían expulsarnos de nuestro vecindario eran judíos, y sus organizaciones solían tener el adjetivo “judío” en el nombre. También lo eran quienes se robaron nuestra casa, lanzaron nuestros muebles a la calle y quemaron la cuna de mi hermana cuando era una bebé. Los jueces que con sus mazos fallaban a favor de nuestra expulsión también eran judíos, y lo eran igualmente los legisladores que facilitaban y hacían sistemático nuestro despojo.
Rain is Coming

May 15, 2024 | mondoweiss.net | Mohammed El-Kurd

Every year since I started writing, whether in Arabic or English, I have produced various iterations of the same essay or poem on Nakba Day, riddled with the same facts and figures and tired arguments, in hopes that one day such persuasion and schooling would no longer be necessary. The thesis has been consistent: pairing “anniversary” and “Nakba” in the same sentence is a misalliance; the time frame, 76 years, is a miscalculation.