I Saw Ramallah-Mourid Barghouti

A moving memoir from Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti who left home at age 22 in 1966 to attend university in Cairo. Barred from his homeland after 1967's Six-Day War, he spent thirty years in exile, shuttling among the world's cities, never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. When he returns home to Ramallah for the first time since the Israeli occupation he finds only a mere "idea of Palestine."

Publisher: Anchor Books     2003     208 pages

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