In the Jordanian capital, Amman, this evening, Sunday, the death of the Palestinian poet and novelist Mourid Barghouti, aged 77, was announced.
His only son, the poet Tamim Al-Barghouti, only wrote his father's name abstract on his Facebook page, to confirm the news of his death among thousands of followers of his father's biography and his family's literary biography.
The Palestinian Minister of Culture Atef Abu Saif mourned the late writer, and said, "With the departure of Barghouti, the Palestinian and Arab culture is losing one of its flags and a symbol of creativity and the Palestinian national cultural struggle."
Abu Saif said - in a press statement - that the late one of the creative people who devoted their writings and creativity to defend the Palestinian cause, the story and struggle of the Palestinian people, and Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian existence, and that his poetic and prose works perpetuate the story of struggle, national struggle and human thought.
His life and his literature
Mourid Al-Barghouti was born in the village of Deir Ghassana, near the city of Ramallah, Palestine, on July 8, 1944, and received his education at Ramallah Secondary School, and in 1963 he traveled to Egypt to enroll in Cairo University, where he studied English, and graduated in 1967, i.e. in The year in which Israel occupied the rest of the Palestinian territories.
Barghouti was not able to return to Palestine until 30 years after that, as he subsequently wrote his famous novel "I saw Ramallah," in which he said, "No absent will return completely, nothing will be restored as it is."
This novel won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literary Creativity in 1997. It deals with the biography of Barghouti, which represented his journey back to his homeland after 30 years of exile.
Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif translated "I saw Ramallah" into English.
In 2009, Murid al-Barghouti published the novel “I was born there, I was born here,” which was considered an extension of his first novel about his visit to Palestine, in which he describes his journey back with his only son to his motherland.
These were also translated into English in 2012.
And in it he wrote, “We can now tell our children that sleepiness will not remain their share forever, nor for some time. But we have to admit to them and ourselves before them that we are also responsible. Our ignorance is responsible. Admiring its colonists as a scandal. "
In addition to his prose works, Barghouti has published 12 collections of poetry, the oldest of which are "The Flood and Reconstruction" in 1972, "Palestinian in the Sun" in 1974, "An Anthem for Armed Poverty" in 1976, and "Saeed Al-Karoui and Helwa Al-Nabeh" in 1978, The Earth publishes its secrets "in 1987," Pavement Poems "in 1980," Long Diaspora "in 1987," When We Meet "in 1990," Needle Ring "1993," Logic of Beings "in 1996," Midnight 2005.
The late celebrated the publication of his poem, "My Kingdom of this World," in Spanish last October.
Mourid Barghouti was known for his support of the Egyptian January Revolution, and for his opposition to the Oslo Agreement and the Palestinian regime that emerged from it, and he attacked the recent Arab normalization agreements with Israel.
At the end of the seventies, Barghouti expressed his rejection of the Camp David peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, and he paid the price for that by preventing him from entering Egypt for many years on the orders of the regime of Anwar Sadat.
Al-Barghouti is the husband of the late Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour, who died in November 2014, and they knew the degrees of Cairo University, as I wrote.
After her death, Al-Barghouti published many sad literary pieces and texts, and he read in a symposium held by the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University, "Open the doors for the entry of the lady." As he pleases or roars as he pleases, but without drawing attention. "