Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd refuses to flinch in all the best ways making it an important book to read for anyone trying to better understand the world. El-Kurd examines, dissects, and analyzes political and social discourse around Palestine and Palestinians. El-Kurd manages to be blunt, eloquent, lyrical, and honest all at the same time. He doesn't hold back unless it's to deliberately expose a larger point. There were moments when I felt uncomfortable and resistant while reading Perfect Victims before seeing those moments as opportunities for growth and better understanding. El-Kurd's writing is an invitation to take off the blinders of misinformation, disinformation, and preconceptions in order to see the world and humanity a little clearer and maybe, just maybe, take action to make the world better. Perfect Victims reminds the reader that to demand a victim to be perfect is to inflict even more harm because there is no such thing as a perfect victim.


Currently Reading:


Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, No'u Revilla, and Terisa Siagaonu (editors)

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