Mourid Barghouti مريد البرغوثي | |
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Born | Deir Ghassana, Mandatory Palestine [1] | 8 July 1944
Died | 14 February 2021 Amman, Jordan | (aged 76)
Nationality | Palestinian |
Children | Tamim Albarghouti |
Mourid Barghouti ( Arabic: مريد البرغوثي, Murīd al-Barghūthī; 8 July 1944 – 14 February 2021) was a Palestinian poet and writer.
Barghouti was born in Deir Ghassana, near Ramallah, on the West Bank, in 8 July 1944. [2] He studied English literature at Cairo University, graduating in 1967, [3] though he was exiled from Egypt in 1977. [4] [5]
The Oslo Accords finally allowed Barghouti to return to the West Bank, and in 1996 he returned to Ramallah after 30 years of exile. [6] [7] This event inspired his autobiographical novel Ra'aytu Ram Allah ( I Saw Ramallah), published by Dar Al Hilal (Cairo, 1997), which won him the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in the same year. [8] A follow-up, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here was written when he and his son, Tamim, made a visit to the city. [9]
In an interview with Maya Jaggi in The Guardian, Barghouti was quoted as saying: "I learn from trees. Just as many fruits drop before they're ripe, when I write a poem I treat it with healthy cruelty, deleting images to take care of the right ones." [10]
Barghouti was married to the novelist Radwa Ashour, [11] with whom he had a son, the poet Tamim Barghouti. [12] He died in Amman on 14 February 2021, aged 76. [13]
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