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