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I Saw Ramallah

By: Barghouti, Mourid / Tr: Soueif, Ahdaf / Int: Said, Edward
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«I Saw Ramallah» by Mourid Barghouti, Introduction by Edward W. Said, Translated by Ahdaf Soueif.

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE

A fierce and moving work and an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament.

Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile—shuttling among the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As he returns home for the first time since the Israeli occupation, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. Sifting through memories of the old Palestine as they come up against what he now encounters in this mere «idea of Palestine,» he discovers what it means to be deprived not only of a homeland but of «the habitual place and status of a person.» A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, «I Saw Ramallah» is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today’s Middle East.

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By:Barghouti, Mourid / Tr: Soueif, Ahdaf / Int: Said, Edward
Language:English
Format:Softcover
Pages: 208 pp
Publisher:Anchor, Reprint Edition, 2003
Dimensions:5.25 x 8 inches
ISBN:1400032660
ISBN-13:9781400032662
Topic:Memoir - Palestine - Middle East History

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mourid Barghouti was born in the West Bank in 1944 and graduated from Cairo University in 1967. His poems have been published in Beirut, Amman, and Cairo, and his collected works were published in Beirut in 1997. He lives in Cairo.

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