Perfect Victims-Mohammed El-Kurd

Writer, poet, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine, Mohammed El-Kurd, offers an eloquent and lyrical meditation on the infuriatingly impossible task of Palestinians having to prove their humanity before the world. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye without deference or condemnation, and confront the truth.

Publisher: Haymarket Books     2025     256 pages

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