I saw Ramallah / Mourid Barghouti ; translated by Ahdaf Soueif ; with a foreword by Edward W. Said

By:

Barghūthī, Murīd

Contributor(s):

Soueif, Ahdaf

Material type: Text

9774244990
9789774244995

Uniform titles:

Raʼaytu Rām Allāh. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

21 823 B I

Contents:

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

Review: "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

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"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

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