Poetry collection by Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian poet and journalist from Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem, giving voice to the experience of dispossession, resistance, and steadfastness in the face of the forced expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes. El-Kurd's poems document the specific geography of Sheikh Jarrah and the emotional and political dimensions of living under the threat of ethnic cleansing while navigating international attention, solidarity, and the limits of global sympathy. Essential for researchers and educators working on Palestinian literature, settler colonialism in Jerusalem, and the politics of poetic testimony, as El-Kurd's collection is one of the most significant literary responses in English to the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians in Jerusalem and became a key cultural reference following its publication and the 2021 international attention to Sheikh Jarrah.
