In 1996 Barghouti went back to his Palestinian home for the first time
since exile following the Six-Day War in 1967, first in Egypt and then
in Hungary, and wrote a poignant and incisive account of the exile's
lot in the acclaimed memoir I Saw Ramallah. In 2003 he returned to
Ramallah to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim Barghouti, to his
Palestinian family. Ironically, within a year Tamim himself had been
arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the impending Iraq
War and found himself not only in the same Cairo prison from which his
father had been expelled from Egypt when Tamim was a baby, but in the
very same cell. I Was Born Here, I was Born There traces Barghouti's
own life in recent years and in the past - early life in Palestine,
expulsion from Cairo, exile to Budapest, marriage to one of Egypt's
leading writers and critics (Radwa Ashour), the birth of his son,
Tamim, and then the young man's own expulsion from Cairo. Ranging
freely back and forth in time Barghouti weaves into it his account
poignant evocations of Palestinian history and daily life. His
evocative composed prose beautifully rendered in Humphrey Davies'
precise and sensitive translation, leads to the surprisingly candid
condemnation of the Palestinian authority's leading figures and the
astonishing verdict that 'The real disaster that the Palestinians are
living through these days is that they've fallen under the control of
a bunch of school kids with no teacher.' Beautifully rendered by the
prize-winning translator Humphrey Davies, I Was Born Here, I Was Born
There, is destined, like its predecessor, to become a classic
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ISBN
9781408829097
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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