Perfect Victims - Mohammed El-Kurd in Conversation with Jehad Abusalim

This is an in-person event starting at 6pm ET in Washington, DC.

Georgetown University Faculty for Justice in Palestine and Zeytoun, a SWANA alliance, in partnership with the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA invite you to attend a book launch of award-winning Palestinian poet, writer, and journalist Mohammed El-Kurd’s, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Haymarket, 2025), in conversation with IPS-USA's Executive Director, Jehad Abusalim.

The event will be held at the Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium.

**Registration is required to attend this event - the event is free of charge. Please be advised, each attendee must purchase their own ticket. Tickets are non-transferable.**

Signed copies of Perfect Victims will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of Busboys and Poets.

Publications by the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA will also be sold.

Perfect Victims, published by Haymarket books, is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.

Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation.