Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti. (Image Credit: Leonardo Cendamo / Getty Images)
Amman, February 18 (RHC)-- Renowned Palestinian author and poet Mourid Barghouti has died 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.
Mourid Barghouti 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.”
