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Mourid Barghouti (Chair)is an award-winning Palestinian poet and writer. He has produced 12 volumes of poetic works, the first published in 1972 and the last in 2005. His poetry has been translated into many other languages and won him the Palestine Award for Poetry in 2000. He is also the author of two novels: I Saw Ramallah (2003) and I Was Born There, I Was Born Here (2011). I Saw Ramallah won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal in 1997 and was translated into several languages, including English, with an introduction written by Edward Said. He has written articles of literary criticism on poetry and prose and delivered lectures on Arabic literature at several Arab and international universities.
He published his first collection of poetry on Dar al-Awda in Beirut in 1972, entitled The Flood and Reconstitution, and published his most recent collection of poetry on Dar Riyad al-Rayyes in Beirut under the title Midnight in 2005. The Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing issued him a volume of poetry works in 1997.
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Murid Al-Barghouti won the Palestine Prize in Poetry in the year 2000. In his speech on behalf of the winners in all its branches on the day of receiving the award at the Culture Palace in Ramallah, he criticized the Palestinian Authority (in the presence of its leaders in the hall) for the declared and implicit one of its political options, and he repeated what is known about him from his persistence The critical role of the intellectual with the independence of creativity. His poems have been translated into several languages and his prose book I saw Ramallah - Dar Al-Hilal (1997) won the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature immediately after its appearance and has been published so far in 6 Arabic editions. It was published in English with a translation of Ahdaf Soueif, and an introduction by Edward Said in three editions by the American University in Cairo Publishing House, then by Random House in New York and then by Bloomsbury in London. Then translated into many languages.
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