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February 17, 2021

Beloved Palestinian Poet Mourid Barghouti, Exiled from His Homeland, Dies at 76
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Renowned Palestinian author and poet Mourid Barghouti died Sunday at the
age of 76 in Amman, Jordan. Barghouti spent most of his life in exile,
writing about his Palestinian homeland and the Israeli occupation. He
married acclaimed Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour, who died in 2014. In his
autobiographical novel "I Saw Ramallah," in which he returns to his
Palestinian hometown after an absence of 30 years, Barghouti writes,
"The calm of the place of exile and its wish-for safety is never
completely realized. The homeland does not leave the body until the last
moment, the moment of death."


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