RIFQA: The LA Launch

**All RSVPs for this book launch were claimed shortly after we announced them. There is currently a sizable waiting list. We'll honor RSVPs until 15 minutes after the 7:30pm door time, at which time we'll give any remaining seats to wait-line attendees on a first come, first serve basis.

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Join us for the launch of Mohammed El-Kurd’s highly-anticipated book RIFQA in a show of music and poetry featuring oud artist Clarissa Bitar and award-winning poet aja monet.

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Mohammed El-Kurd
aja monet
Clarissa Bitar

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Wednesday, November 17"
7:30pm

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This is an all ages event

Sliding scale cash or Venmo donation at the door

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Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd’s ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. ‘Jerusalem is ours.’

Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa’s exile from Haifa to his family’s current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and relentless horror of the Nakba. El-Kurd’s debut collection definitively shows that the Palestinian struggle is a revolution, until victory.

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Readings are supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 2021 Organizational Support Grant.