Mourid Barghouti

Mourid Barghouti was born on the West Bank near Ramallah in 1944.  He has published thirteen books of poetry in Arabic including a Collected Works (1997) and was awarded the Palestine Award for Poetry in 2000.  His latest book I Saw Ramallah, an account of his return to Palestine after 30 years in exile in Cairo, was published in English by Bloomsbury (2004) to great critical acclaim.
Mourid Barghouti lives in Cairo with his wife, the novelist Radwa Ashour.

'An important literary event... One of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement that we now have.' Edward W. Said, on I Saw Ramallah.

'A bedside book if ever there was one: unforgettable memories, razor insights, name-games, stories with eyes closed, no conclusions, only the passionate pain of exile, recounted at the end of a day by a true poet.' John Berger, on I Saw Ramallah.
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