Mourid Barghouti
The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti has published fourteen books of poetry and the autobiographical narrative I Saw Ramallah, which Edward Said described as ‘one of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement we now have’. At the...
London Review Bookshop Podcast
October 18, 20061h 18m
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Show Notes
Although best known in the English-speaking world for his autobiography I Saw Ramallah, Mourid Barghouti has published 14 volumes of poetry. After treating the audience to a reading from his work in both English and (briefly) Arabic, he answered a range of questions from both the audience and Ruth Padel, focusing primarily on the political background to his work.
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