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He was born four years before the state of Israel was created in a village near Ramallah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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He spent much of his life in one form or other of exile - which he recounted in the memoir I Saw Ramallah that won him an international audience.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The memoir was described by his fellow Palestinian writer Edward Said as one of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Born in 1944, Barghouti was studying in the Egyptian capital Cairo when the 1967 Arab-Israeli war broke out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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He did not return to his birthplace for another 30 years. His sense of being forever uprooted was examined in I Saw Ramallah but also in many of the poems he published in 12 collections as he moved between countries.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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He was a long-serving Palestine Liberation Organisation representative but kept his distance from political parties.<\/span><\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_date_start":"2021-02-15 10:48:44","content_date_event":"2021-02-15 10:48:44","content_date_event_start":null,"content_date_event_end":null,"content_show_title_slider":1,"content_date_last_edit":"2021-02-15 14:34:51","content_date_register":"2021-02-15 10:50:20","content_columns":0,"content_show_img":1,"content_show_details":0,"content_show_related_img":0,"content_show_slider":1,"content_comment":1,"content_score":0,"tag_id":0,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"uid":44,"eid":44,"attach_title":"Leading Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti dies aged 77 2","attaches":[{"sizes":{"150":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202102\/485488_4224502192_150_84.webp","300":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202102\/485488_4224502192_300_169.webp","400":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202102\/485488_4224502192_400_225.webp","600":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202102\/485488_4224502192_600_338.webp","900":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202102\/485488_4224502192_900_506.webp","1200":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202102\/485488_4224502192_976_549.jpg"},"ext":"jpg","file_media":1,"token":4224502192,"files":{"original":{"url":".\/file\/2\/attach\/202102\/485488_4224502192.jpg","width":976,"height":549,"size":0}}}]}]]