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I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
Mourid Barghouti
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Description for I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
Paperback. In his incisive, moving and revelatory account of returning to Ramallah to introduce his 23-year-old son born in exile in Cairo to his Palestinian family, Mourid Barghouti has matched the achievement of his first memoir, I Saw Ramallah. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJP; 3JM; BGA; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 199 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172. 240 pages. In his incisive, moving and revelatory account of returning to Ramallah to introduce his 23-year-old son born in exile in Cairo to his Palestinian family, Mourid Barghouti has matched the achievement of his first memoir, I Saw Ramallah. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJP; 3JM; BGA; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Dimension: 151 x 199 x 16. Weight: 172.
The sequel to the classic memoir I Saw Ramallah, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Ranging freely back and forth in time between the 1990s and the present day, Barghouti weaves into his account of exile poignant evocations of Palestinian history and daily life - the pleasure of coffee arriving at just the right moment, the challenge of a car journey through the Occupied Territories, the meaning of home and ... Read more
The sequel to the classic memoir I Saw Ramallah, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Ranging freely back and forth in time between the 1990s and the present day, Barghouti weaves into his account of exile poignant evocations of Palestinian history and daily life - the pleasure of coffee arriving at just the right moment, the challenge of a car journey through the Occupied Territories, the meaning of home and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408822470
SKU
V9781408822470
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About Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti was born in 1944 near Ramallah. He has published thirteen books of poetry in Arabic including a Collected Works (1997) and was awarded the Palestine Award for Poetry in 2000. Mourid Barghouti lives in Cairo with his wife, the novelist Radwa Ashour.
Reviews for I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
A particularly sophisticated insight into the plight of Palestinians and their perspective on the conflict ... Beautiful
Jake Wallis Simons
Independent on Sunday
A salutary lesson
Economist
An honest confrontation with Israeli violence and impunity, an unflinching description of the Palestinian Authority's compromising failures, and a plea for joy. Barghouti renders the world with rare ... Read more
Jake Wallis Simons
Independent on Sunday
A salutary lesson
Economist
An honest confrontation with Israeli violence and impunity, an unflinching description of the Palestinian Authority's compromising failures, and a plea for joy. Barghouti renders the world with rare ... Read more