Mohammed el-Kurd
Poet-journalist opening with live spoken word
From Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine
A poetry performance, not a music set: voice-forward, direct, and built around cadence and spoken-line impact. Expect tightly drawn reading rather than accompaniment or performance art gloss.
More about Mohammed el-Kurd
El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer, poet, journalist, and organizer from Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem. He is The Nation’s first-ever Palestine correspondent, editor-at-large at Mondoweiss, and the author of Rifqa and Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, published by Haymarket Books in 2025.
A story
At 11, his family home in Sheikh Jarrah was taken over by armed Israeli settlers.
Playing
- 2026-11-05 2026-11-05T18:30:00 · Mohammed el-Kurd · TivoliVredenburg
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