

The siblings were named two of TIME Magazine’s most influential people of 2021. El-Kurd and his twin sister, Muna, emerged into the spotlight for their grassroots activism and online advocacy for Palestine. Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian poet and journalist from East Jerusalem, spoke about the intersection of violence and law Wednesday at an event organized by Harvard Law School’s Middle Eastern Law Student Association.Ĭo-hosted by the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic and HLS Advocates for Human Rights, the talk’s location was moved to First Church in “solidarity with the Harvard Graduate Student Union strike,” which is scheduled to last until Friday.Įl-Kurd became the Palestine correspondent for The Nation in September.
