(“He mends what is broken, rebuilds what is ruined, and chooses his supporters and enemies from among the people. He does suggest, subtly, that his fellow intellectuals aligned themselves too closely with the Arafat government, which has been none too democratic. “How many homes have not been kept up? How many bookshops could have been set up in Ramallah, how many theaters? The Occupation kept the Palestinian village static and turned our cities back into villages.” Barghouti locates the blame for this reversal of fortune in the rightist governments of Rabin and Sharon, and his sense of aggrieved victimhood makes only a little allowance for such peace-inhibiting elements as suicide bombers and the PLO.

“How many cities have wilted?” he mourns. I have moved between houses and furnished apartments, and become used to the passing and the temporary.” On finally returning to Ramallah in the summer of 1996, Barghouti writes, he could recognize his old city only in outline, for the place, once an Arab suburb of Jerusalem, was now scarcely more than a ghost town ringed by Israeli settlements. I have never been able to collect my own library. Now one of the naziheen, or “displaced ones,” he spent the next 30 years abroad, “afflicted by a Bedouin traveling, and I am not a Bedouin. Then a university student in Cairo, Barghouti was denied permission to return to his native city of Ramallah, on the West Bank, following the Six-Day War in 1967. OL15275283W Page_number_confidence 82.04 Pages 208 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220802191136 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 179 Scandate 20220801223052 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9789774247552 Tts_version 5.An elegiac memoir, by a Palestinian intellectual and poet, of life in a land torn by war. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:01:51 Associated-names Soueif, Ahdaf Said, Edward W Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40623815 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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