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I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mourid Barghouti [Murīd Barghūthī], Humphrey Davies (translation), John Berger (foreword) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is I Was Born There, I Was Born Here about?
In 2000 Mourid Barghouti published I Saw Ramallah, the acclaimed memoir that told of returning in 1996 to his Palestinian home for the first time since exile following the Six-Day War in 1967. I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, a few years later Tamim had himself been arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the impending Iraq War. He was held in the very same Cairo prison from which his father had been expelled from Egypt to begin a second exile in Budapest when Tamim was only a few months old.Ranging freely back & forth in time between the 1990s & the present day, Barghouti weaves into his account of exile poignant evocations of Palestinian history & daily life – the pleasure of coffee arriving at just the right moment, the challenge of a car journey through the Occupied Territories, the meaning of home & the importance of being able to say, standing in a small village in Palestine, ‘I was born here’, rather than saying from exile, ‘I was bornthere’.Full of life & humour in the face of a culture of death, I Was Bo
Who reads I Was Born There, I Was Born Here?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mourid Barghouti [Murīd Barghūthī], Humphrey Davies (translation), John Berger (foreword)
- Publisher
- Walker & Co., The American University in Cairo Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802743527
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, History
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (60 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14