Rifqa Asian American & Pacific Islander Renée Watson writes

Renée Watson writes

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora

and with his collaborators

and the first person to win the Naismith College Player of the Year award as both a player and coach

Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal

Rifqa Asian American & Pacific Islander Renée Watson writesEach day after school, Mohammed El Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical