![]() ![]() Barghouti sees Palestine not only for himself, but for them as well. Friends return to his thoughts time and again: Ghassan Kanafani, the novelist Naji Ali, the political cartoonist his elder brother Mourid, who died in Paris in suspicious circumstances. As he saw Ramallah and his home in Deir Ghassanah in 1996, his feelings is of mixed emotions: joy at seeing his family who are waiting for him, sadness for those who have died and who will get to tread the Palestine earth. 30 years later, with the Oslo Agreement, the Palestinian refugees and exiles may apply for the right to return and Barghouti was allowed back to his homeland.īarghouti intertwines his emotional home coming with evocative and elegiac prose of his life in exile. Then came the Six-Day War in Palestine and Barghouti, like many young Palestinians abroad, was denied entry into Palestine. In 1966, the Palestine poet Mourid Barghouti, then 22, left home to return to university in Cairo. ![]()
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