Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti is a Palestinian poet and writer. He was born in Deir Ghassana, near Ramallah, on the West Bank.Biography
The Oslo Accords finally allowed Barghouti to return to the West Bank, and in 1996 he returned to Ramallah after 30 years of exile. This event inspired his autobiographical novel Ra'aytu Ram Allah, published by Dar Al Hilal, which won him the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in the same year. A second part of the novel entitled, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, was written when he and his son, Tamim, made a visit to Ramallah.
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."
