Mourid Barghouti

Norbert Bugeja (University of Malta)

Ed. by Rita Sakr, Maynooth University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 6.1.1: Israeli and Palestinian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Anna Bernard (King's College London), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University), Anastasia Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)

Dates

Born 8 Jul 1944
Died 14 Feb 2021
Activity 1972-2021

Places

Born in Palestine
Active in Palestine; Egypt

Activities

Primary

Memoirist
Poet

Resources

Barghouti's Works

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Mourid Barghouti was a foremost Palestinian poet and memoirist. He was born on the 8 July 1944 in Deir Ghassanah, a village that forms part of the Bani Zaid string of villages, situated in the vicinity of the city of Ramallah on the West Bank of the Jordan River, inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). He is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including the collection

A Small Sun

(2003) and

Midnight and Other Poems

(Arc, 2008), a collection that includes his celebrated, eponymous epic poem “Midnight”. Both works were translated into English by Barghouti’s wife, the late Radwa Ashour, a renowned Egyptian novelist and scholar in her own right. Barghouti’s highly-acclaimed first work of memoir,

I Saw Ramallah

(Bloomsbury, 2004), translated from the Arabic [

Ra’aytu

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Citation: Bugeja, Norbert. "Mourid Barghouti". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 September 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12753, accessed 22 November 2024.]