I Saw Ramallah

Authors: Mourid Barghouti, Translated by: Ahdaf Soueif Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Edition: 2 Publish Year: 2005 ISBN: 9780747574705 In 1966, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, then twenty-two, left his country to return to university in Cairo. A year later came the Six Day War and Barghouti, like many Palestinians living abroad, was denied entry into his homeland. Thirty years later, he was finally allowed to visit Ramallah, the city he had grown up