Rifqa Joseph R. Wolin It’s true

It’s true

and includes documentation of three new commissions by SAF

Designed and made in France

Their works—ranging from literary fiction to neighborhood memoir and heartfelt historical analysis—anchor the book’s deep search for how such a pronounced effort to modernize through architecture materialized for the people arriving to live in Sharjah

Rifqa Joseph R. Wolin It’s trueEach day after school, Mohammed El Kurds 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 Rifqas exile from Haifa to his familys current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical and