Rating: 5 Stars In a nutshell: Palestinian poet and journalist El-Kurd shares his perspective on life in Palestine under colonial occupation. Best for: Anyone who cares about justice, freedom, and morality. Worth quoting: I underlined so much of this book, I’d basically be reproducing it here. But some passages that really stuck with me are: “The standard, across industries, is to dehumanize the Palestinian.” “We must not wait for Haaretz or the New York Times to arrive at the miraculous epiphanies we have long called […]
Visceral Honesty and Gorgeous Writing
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

