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by Mourid Barghouti
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said (Introduction by), Ahdaf Soueif (Translator)Publish date:2003-05-13Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9781400032662ISBN-10:1400032660UPC:9781400032662Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle EasternSize:8.22 x 5.02 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCAJQGQ85J
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9781400032662ISBN-10:1400032660UPC:9781400032662Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle EasternSize:8.22 x 5.02 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCAJQGQ85J
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.

Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England. She is the author of the novels In the Eye of the Sun and The Map of Love and the story collections Aisha and Sandpiper.

Edward W. Said is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, and a memoir, Out of Place.

Publisher: Anchor Books

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Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said (Introduction by), Ahdaf Soueif (Translator)

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Mourid Barghouti

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