Mohammed El-Kurd

Palestinian Award-Winning Poet, Writer & Journalist

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Mohammed El-Kurd Biography

Mohammed El-Kurd is an internationally touring and award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. In 2021, He was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine. He is best known for his role as a co-founder of the #SaveSheikhJarrah movement. His work has been featured in numerous international outlets and he has appeared repeatedly as a commentator on major TV networks.

Currently, El-Kurd serves as the first-ever Palestine Correspondent for The Nation. His first published essay in this role, "A Night with Palestine's Defenders of the Mountain," was shortlisted for the 2022 One World Media Print Award. “RIFQA,” his debut collection of poetry, was published by Haymarket Books in October 2021 was later released in Italian by Fandango Libre. “RIFQA” was named “a masterpiece” by The New Arab and a “remarkable debut” by the Los Angeles Review of Books, it was one of Middle East Eye’s "Best Books of 2021" and was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize for "Best First Collection."

El-Kurd holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and a BFA in Writing from Atlanta’s Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Arab American Civil Council’s “Truth in Media” Award (2022), as well as the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation (2023). He is currently a Civic Media Fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California.

El-Kurd has lectured and performed around the world including as the keynote for the 18th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture at Princeton University, at the Internazionale literary festival in Ferrara, Italy, and most recently at Adelaide Writers’ Week in Australia.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/07/2024.

Mohammed El-Kurd Videos

  • Mohammed El-Kurd Reads at PalFest NYC Event: "But We Must Speak"
    On November 1st the Palestine Festival of Literature staged a free, public event in New York titled: But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the...
  • Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine | Lex Fridman Podcast #391
    Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:18 - Palestine 26:47 - Hate 40:18 - Antisemitism 48:14 -...
  • Ferguson to Sheikh Jarrah: The Black & Palestinian Struggle for Justice

Mohammed El-Kurd Books

  • Perfect Victims: And The Politics Of Appeal
    Perfect Victims: And The Politics Of Appeal
  • Rifqa
    Rifqa

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