A selection from the prose and poetry by Mourid Barghouti available in translation, online.
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Beloved Palestinian Poet and Memoirist Mourid Barghouti Dies at 76
Palestinian poet and memoirist Mourid Barghouti — widow of the great Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour (1946-2014) — died on February 14, 2021.
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Forthcoming: Posthumous Collection of Radwa Ashour’s Writing
Last week, on what would’ve been Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour’s 73rd birthday, Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti announced a new collection of her work.
Read more5 Must-read Memoirs (and Not-quite-memoirs)
Assembly Journal, for their “five books” series, asked me to come up with a list of five Arabic books. The field was too dizzyingly wide.
Even when I narrowed my topic to “memoirs and not-quite-memoirs,” it was a difficult winnowing process: What about Galal Amin’s Nectar of the Years? Well, it hasn’t been translated into English, so that’s that, I suppose. Sayyid Qutb or Huda Shaarawi’s memoirs, for their historical and political importance? Taha Hussein’s classic The Days? (But hasn’t everyone already read The Days?)
Read moreA Poet’s Reflections on Tamim and Mourid Barghouti Reading with Ahdaf Soueif
Which is was why I was particularly grateful that the British-Libyan poet, surgeon, and blogger Ghazi Gheblawi recorded his impressions of last night’s Tamim Barghouti, Mourid Barghouti, Ahdaf Soueif event via Twitter.
Read moreIf You Loved Mourid Barghouti’s /I Saw Ramallah/, Then You’ll Want to Read…
Aha! You’re expecting me to say Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, which I would, except you already know you want to read Barghouti’s follow-up memoir, which should be out in English next fall from AUC Press. (The translation, I’m told, is being done by Humphrey Davies.)
Read moreWhen (Arab) Poets Write Prose
Baheyya begins her review of Mourid Bargouti’s 2009 memoir I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by stating: “It’s a wonderful thing when poets write prose.” This is certainly […]
Read moreUpdate on Barghouti’s /I Was Born There, I Was Born Here/
Bibliophiles take note: Palestinian poet Mourid Bargouti’s new memoir is set to come out in in English next fall from American University in Cairo Press. The translation of Bargouti’s second […]
Read moreReading Challenge Update: Shakir Mustafa’s Top 5
Shakir Mustafa (not, you know, Mustafa Shakir) has finally turned in his reading challenge picks. Mustafa is the editor and translator of the excellent Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology. I […]
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