Personal Info
- Country of residence: Palestine
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Muhammad Nabil al-Kurd (born May 15, 1998) is a Palestinian writer and poet from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. He was attending a master's degree in the United States before returning to Sheikh Jarrah to protest the forced evictions of its residents, including his family. He gained prominence for his talk about the Israeli occupation; He often refers to the evictions as a form of ethnic cleansing, and the occupation as a whole as complicit with apartheid and settler colonialism. Starting in September 2021, Al-Kurd became a correspondent for The Nation magazine covering Palestinian affairs.
In 2021, Muhammad al-Kurd and his sister, Mona al-Kurd, were named to the annual list of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World"; For their success in portraying the reality of life under occupation in Jerusalem, which contributed to bringing about a change in the discourse on the Palestinian cause at the international level.
previous life
Muhammad al-Kurd was born in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. Part of his family home in Sheikh Jarrah was taken over by Israeli settlers in 2009 when he was 11 years old. Kurd was the main subject of the 2013 documentary film My Neighborhood directed by Julia Pasha, and Rebecca Wingert Gabe.
Sheikh Jarrah campaign
Al-Kurd documents and talks about forcing Palestinians to leave their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, where Muhammad and his twin sister Mona started an awareness campaign about forced evictions in Sheikh Jarrah through social media channels.
The Israeli police arrested Mona and Muhammad on June 6, 2021, and later released them after detaining them for several hours.
published works
Al-Kurd writes his poetry and essays in English and on the topics of dispossession, ethnic cleansing, systemic and structural violence, settler colonialism, and gender roles:
“Dear President Obama...I hope you will not remain silent.” The Guardian, 2013.
“Palestinian Women: A Rich History of Leadership and Resistance,” Al-Jazeera, 2018.
“My Grandmother, Icon of Palestinian Resilience,” The Nation, 2020.
“Tomorrow, Israeli settlers may force my family and my neighbors to leave our homes.” The Nation, 2020.
“Why are Palestinians forced to prove their humanity?” +972 Magazine, 2020.
“If they stole Sheikh Jarrah,” Mada Masr 2021.
“My Cousin Was Shot by the Israeli Army – and the US Takes Part of the Blame,” The Nation, 2021.
Rebekah, Haymarket Books, 2021.
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