Mohammed el-Kurd's Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal published last year and was an instant bestseller, and has since been translated into multiple languages.

More often than not, international media and political platforms demand that Palestinians perform a perfect victimhood in order to be admitted as human, even as the crimes of their occupiers are explained away and given the benefit of doubt. In this historically grounded book, written with a poet's precision, El-Kurd's argues for a discourse and a politics in which Palestinian humanity exists on its own complex, truthful terms.

Join us for the first in-person UK event for Perfect Victims. El-Kurd will be in conversation with writer and PalFest coorganizer Yasmin El-Rifae. Copies will be on sale, and there will be a book signing after the conversation. 

Mohammed El-Kurd is an award-winning poet, writer, and journalist from Jerusalem. He was the first ever Palestine correspondent for The Nation, and is the author of the poetry collection Rifqa. 

Yasmin El-Rifae is the author of Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution, and is a contributing editor at Parapraxis  and Lux magazines. She is a coorganizer of The Palestine Festival of Literature.

Where: SET Social in Peckham 

When: Saturday,  July 11th, 6 to 7 30pm, with a book signing afterwards