The UN will commemorate Nakba Day for the first time in 2023: Nakba Day acknowledges ongoing Israeli aggression and the Zionist destruction of Palestinian lives and peace in Palestine

& Nakba Day marks the official beginning of the ongoing Palestinian Refugee crisis as Israel continues to destroy Palestinian homes, displacing Palestinian men, women, and children, and denying Palestinian refugees the inalienable natural and legal right to return to original homes and lands.  Israel continues to usurp Palestinian land, rights & freedom...

Nakba Day is marked annually by Palestinians on May 15 to remember the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and areas in 1948 after the founding of Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd & singer-songwriter Mustafa the Poet share their thoughts on Palestine, searching for beauty in a wounded world, and the enduring power of poetry to liberate

"Incidentally, the award-winning writer and poet was born exactly 50 years after 15 May 1948, a day known to Palestinians as the Nakba. It is perhaps destiny, then, that both Mohammed and his twin sister Muna live and breathe Palestinian politics. Aged 11, they watched a group of settlers forcibly take over half of their home, and throw out and burn their family’s possessions. To this day, the settlers still occupy the annex to their family home that’s located in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah."  

The Story of Mohammed El-Kurd

GQ Middle East sat down with writer and poet Mohammed El-Kurd, together with his friend, singer-songwriter Mustafa the Poet. The two shared their thoughts on Palestine, searching for beauty in a wounded world, and the enduring power of poetry to liberate. 

 

 AS Always PLEASE go the the original link to read the story in full, and in this case to see the lovely photographs

https://www.gqmiddleeast.com/features/mohammed-el-kurd-gq-middle-east-2023

Photo from poet Mohammed El-Kurd's twitter