| Description |
184 pages ; 24 cm. |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Modern Arabic writing |
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Modern Arabic writing.
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| Contents |
Foreword / by Edward W. Said -- 1. The Bridge -- 2. This is Ramallah -- 3. Deir Ghassanah -- 4. The Village Square -- 5. Living in Time -- 6. Uncle Daddy -- 7. Displacements -- 8. Reunion -- 9. The Daily Day of Judgment -- Glossary. |
| Summary |
"The first narrative work of the well-known Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti is an autobiographical memoir about the ironies of homecoming. The bridge that Barghouti crosses as a young man leaving his country in 1966 to pursue university studies in Cairo is the same bridge that he uses to cross back in 1996 after thirty long years in the Diaspora." "I Saw Ramallah is about home and homelessness. The harrowing experience of a Palestinian, denied the most elementary human rights in his occupied country and in exile alike, is transformed into a humanist work. Palestine has been appropriated, dispossessed, renamed, changed beyond recognition by the usurpers, yet from the heap of broken images and shattered homes, Barghouti repossesses his homeland."--Jacket. |
| Language |
Translated from the Arabic. |
| Awards |
Winner of The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, 1997. |
| Subject |
Barghth, Murd -- Travel -- West Bank.
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West Bank -- Description and travel.
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Barghth, Murd. (OCoLC)fst00209149
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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West Bank. (OCoLC)fst01243256
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| Added Author |
Soueif, Ahdaf.
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| Translation Of: |
Barghth, Murd. Ra'aytu Rm Allh. |
| ISBN |
977424592X |
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9789774245923 |
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9774244990 (jacket) |
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9789774244995 (jacket) |
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