TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barghūthī,Murīd
AU  - Soueif,Ahdaf
TI  - I saw Ramallah
T2  - Modern Arabic writing
SN  - 9774244990
U1  - 823 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cairo, New York
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Barghūthī, Murīd
KW  - West Bank
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Mourid Barghouti
N1  - Foreword / by Edward W. Said -- 1. The Bridge -- 2. This is Ramallah -- 3. Deir Ghassanah -- 4. The Village Square -- 5. Living in Time -- 6. Uncle Daddy -- 7. Displacements -- 8. Reunion -- 9. The Daily Day of Judgment -- Glossary
N2  - "The first narrative work of the well-known Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti is an autobiographical memoir about the ironies of homecoming. The bridge that Barghouti crosses as a young man leaving his country in 1966 to pursue university studies in Cairo is the same bridge that he uses to cross back in 1996 after thirty long years in the Diaspora." "I Saw Ramallah is about home and homelessness. The harrowing experience of a Palestinian, denied the most elementary human rights in his occupied country and in exile alike, is transformed into a humanist work. Palestine has been appropriated, dispossessed, renamed, changed beyond recognition by the usurpers, yet from the heap of broken images and shattered homes, Barghouti reposssesses his homeland."--Jacket
ER  -