\”Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.\”
-Robin D. G. Kelley
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Imprint: HAYMARKET US
Publication date: 01/06/2025
