I Saw Ramallah by Barghouti, Mourid

I Saw Ramallah (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400032662)

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I Saw Ramallah by Barghouti, Mourid

I Saw Ramallah

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I Saw Ramallah by Barghouti, Mourid

I Saw Ramallah

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Mourid Barghouti
ISBN-10: 1400032660
ISBN-13: 9781400032662
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2003
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.02w x 0.32d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2003 pg. 515
Publishers Weekly 04/07/2003 pg. 57
Booklist 04/15/2003 pg. 1442
Library Journal 05/01/2003 pg. 138
Kliatt 09/01/2003 pg. 33
By Mourid Barghouti
By Mourid Barghouti
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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.

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