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• Title:[Raʼaytu Rām Allāh. English]
  I saw Ramallah / Mourid Barghouti ; translated by Ahdaf Soueif ; with a foreword by Edward W. Said.
  
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• Author/Creator:Barghūthī, Murīd.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Soueif, Ahdaf.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Anchor Books, 2003.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PJ7816.A682 R3313 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Barghūthī, Murīd--Travel--West Bank.
  West Bank--Description and travel.
  
• Edition:1st Anchor Books ed.
  
• Description:xi, 184 p. ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:Barred from his homeland after 1967's Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile, shuttling among the world's cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As he returns home for the first time since the Israeli occupation, Barghouti crosses a wooden bridge over the Jordan River into Ramallah and is unable to recognize the city of his youth. Sifting through memories of the old Palestine as they come up against what he now encounters in this mere "idea of Palestine", he discovers what it means to be deprived not only of a homeland but of "the habitual place and status of a person." A tour de force of memory and reflection, lamentation and resilience, I saw Ramallah is a deeply humane book, essential to any balanced understanding of today's Middle East.
  
• ISBN:1400032660
  9781400032662