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Abdul Latif Mahmoud Al-Barghouthi was born in the village of Kafr Ein in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate on April 9, 1928. He is married and has two sons and three daughters. He studied primary school at Deir Ghassaneh Boys' School and at Al-Rashidiyah College in Jerusalem, from which he obtained the Palestinian matriculation certificate in 1947. He earned a bachelor's degree in Arabic language and Islamic history from the Department of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 1956, a master's degree in Arabic and Islamic studies from the same university in 1958, and a doctorate in comparative literature from the same university in 1963.
He worked as a teacher at Deir Jarir School between 1947 and 1950, and as the principal of Bani Zeid Secondary School until 1956. He then served as an educational supervisor and director of teacher training at schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Later, he worked as a broadcaster in the Arabic section of the BBC, and then as a teacher at the Teachers' Institute in Benghazi, Libya. He was a UNESCO consultant for teacher training in Bahrain between 1974 and 1975, and a UNESCO consultant at the Libyan University in Tripoli between 1967 and 1974. He also served as a UNESCO consultant for teacher training in the United Arab Emirates between 1982 and 1984. He then worked as a professor of Arabic language at the Faculty of Arts at Birzeit University, and as head of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature in 1980. He was then Vice President of the University for Academic Affairs between 1982 and 1984, before returning to Birzeit University as a professor of Arabic language between 1982 and 1984. (1985-1997), then an advisor to the President of Al-Quds University between (1998-2000).
Barghouti was a member of several cultural and literary institutions, such as the Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors , PEN International, the American Folklore Society, the Palestinian Arabic Language Academy , the Meeting Center for Religious and Heritage Studies in the Holy Land, and the Palestine Committee in Arts and Literature. He was the head of the Palestinian Folklorists Association and the head of the Palestinian Folk Heritage Center in Al-Bireh.
Barghouti participated in several scientific conferences in the Arab world and the United States. He published twenty-six books on history, heritage, education, and literature, including: *Ancient History of Libya from the Earliest Times to the Islamic Conquest* (1971), *Islamic History of Libya from the Islamic Conquest to the Beginning of the Ottoman Era* (1972), *Renewal in Teaching Social Studies in Primary Schools* (translated, 1974), *Popular Arabic Songs in Palestine and Jordan* (1979), *The Epic of Kafr Tut* (poetry, 1980), *The Palestinian 'Ataba Collection* (1986), *Tales of Jan from Bani Zaid* (1986), *Between Official and Popular Heritage* (1986), *Arab Stories from Artas* (1988), *The Palestinian Folk Dictionary* (three volumes published consecutively in 1987, 1993, and 1998), *The Late Dr. Saeed Al-Faqih: His Political Writings* (1989), *Popular Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada* (1990), and *The Palestinian Dal'ouna Collection*. (1990), The Umayyad Parties in the Arab East (1992), A Palestinian Fighter: A Study in the Life and Struggle of Samiha Salama Khalil (Joint, 1992), and The Anthology of the Popular Uprising (1997).
He published fifty-five research papers and studies addressing issues of Palestinian folk heritage, particularly folk literature, in several journals, including: Al-Turath wal-Mujtama' (Heritage and Society) published in Al-Bireh, Al-Aswar (The Walls) published in Acre, and the Kuwaiti journal Alam Al-Fikr (World of Thought). The Palestine Liberation Organization awarded him the Jerusalem Medal for Culture and Arts in 1990, and the Palestine Prize for Culture Committee awarded him the Palestine Prize for Folk Heritage in 1998.
He died on May 7, 2002.
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