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

Hauntingly beautiful FAIRUZ - "Wa Habibi" An Arab Christian Hymn (with english subtitles)

Traditional Arabic/Syrian, Christian hymn, that is sung during the Good Friday ceremony in homage to passions and death of Jesus Christ. Strongly branded by the interpretation of the unique voice of Fairuz.

Palestine ... the stone rolled away

Palestine

 

Growing Gardens for Palestine... Sliman Mansour: The Nazarene (الناصري), oil on canvas, 1993 . Happy Easter from Palestine عيد فصح مجيد من فلسطين

 Sliman Mansour: The Nazarene (الناصري), oil on canvas, 1993 . Happy Easter from Palestine عيد فصح مجيد من فلسطين

The Nazarene (الناصري), oil on canvas, 1993 . Happy Easter from Palestine عيد فصح مجيد من فلسطين

 

The Last Supper #Palestine - painting by Sliman Mansour oil on canvas, 1994

 

Israel's System of Silencing- stifling the facts & any real hope for true peace and justice in The Holy Land

Zionist Israel's System of Silencing- stifling the facts & any real hope for true peace and justice in The Holy Land

 "The decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been largely a political one, even though the Zionist movement has used religion to advance its claims of a divine right to the land of Palestine. But, as far as the international community was concerned, Israel was acting as a democratic civilized country that believed in the right of worship and respected humanitarian law. Efforts by Palestinians, Israelis and international NGOs to expose this lie went unnoticed until hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews demonstrated in opposition to what they perceived as undemocratic moves even against fellow (largely secular) Jewish Israelis."  Daoud Kuttab

Warnings of Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa were ignored. Why?

As Always please go to the original link and read the article in full

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2281961

My letter published in my local newspaper "I agree with Daoud Kuttab’s clear headed warning" PennLive letters

I agree with Daoud Kuttab’s clear headed warning

I agree with Daoud Kuttab’s clear headed warning | PennLive letters

• Published: Apr. 03, 2023, 11:03 a.m.  PennLive/ The Patriot News Letters to the Editor
  

Regarding Daoud Kuttab’s clear headed warning “When hatred replaces hope, how can there be peace in Israel?” in the Sunday March 26, 2023 news. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s expansionist map reaching far beyond the Jordan River across all of Jordan and into parts of Lebanon and Syria really should be a wake up call to American supporters and politicians.

In 1948, after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust the world came together to create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the “foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”

Tragically, Israel has been violating the basic human rights of the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine since 1948 by systematically impoverishing and displacing the native non-Jewish men, women, and children of historic Palestine.

Zionism is a state-sponsored project shaping freedom, rights, jobs, investments, and housing projects for Zionist Jews. Zionism clearly inspires and rewards religious extremism on every side. This situation is insane and wrong ... and very dangerous!

We should be funding real freedom and democracy and jobs here in America, and we should be collectively investing in freedom of and from religion: Respect and compassion for all God’s children, no matter what their names.

Anne Selden Annab, Mechanicsburg Pa.

https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2023/04/i-agree-with-daoud-kuttabs-clear-headed-warning-pennlive-letters.html

1839 Palestine: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem print by David Roberts

1839 Palestine: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem print by David Roberts

 

Palestine Land Day

Palestine Land Day

Land Day Palestine is not a commemoration of a past tragedy, it is a commemoration of something ongoing and present tense.

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The Land Day is not a commemoration of a past tragedy, rather a commemoration of something ongoing and present tense. Out of all the loot, the land remains indisputably, the most valuable.

#landday #land_day #culture #traditionalart #digitalart #digitaldrawing #digitalartist #paintings #thobe #roots

#رمضان #رمضان_كريم #رمضان_يجمعنا #رمضانيات#poet #poetry ##ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak #ramadandecorations #illustration #procreate #art #artist

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Land Day
Land Day poster
Observed by	Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories
Date	March 30
Next time	March 30, 2024
Frequency	Annual

Land Day (Arabic: يوم الأرض, Yawm al-ʾArḍ; Hebrew: יוֹם הַאֲדָמָה, Yom HaAdama), March 30, is a day of commemoration for Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians of the events of that date in 1976 in Israel.

In 1976, in response to the Israeli government's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of dunams of land for state purposes, a general strike and marches were organized in Arab towns from the Galilee to the Negev.^[1][2] In the ensuing confrontations with the Israeli army and police, six unarmed^[3] Arab citizens were killed, about one hundred were wounded, and hundreds of others arrested.^[2][4][5][6]

Scholarship on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict recognizes Land Day as a pivotal event in the struggle over land and in the relationship of Arab citizens to the Israeli state and body politic. It is significant in that it was the first time since 1948 that Arabs in Israel organized a response to Israeli policies as a Palestinian national collective.^[1] An important annual day of commemoration in the Palestinian national political calendar ever since, it is marked not only by Arab citizens of Israel, but also by Palestinians all over the world.^[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Day

PODIUM MAPS 2023: Jordan's response to racist Israeli politician Bezalel Smotrich's Paris podium map of “Greater Israel” that includes modern-day Jordan

This is Zionism: Israeli politician Bezalel Smotrich's podium 2023

 

Jordan's response after Smotrich spoke from a podium in Paris carrying a map of Israel that includes all of the Jordan kingdom's borders and the occupied Palestinian territories, where Smotrich claimed: "There is no Palestinian history or culture, and there is no such thing as the Palestinian people."