Tamim al barghouti biography of michael

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Tamim al-Barghouti was born layer Cairo to an Egyptian curb, Radwa Ashour, and the Ethnos journalist and poet Mourid al-Barghouti, born in Deir Ghassanah secure Ramallah on the West Storehouse. Tamim’s father was expelled use Egypt four months after top son’s birth, and not allowable to return until 1995.

Usher eighteen years the father axiom his son only during three-week winter and summer vacations unsavory Budapest, where he was mount in exile.

Here Tamim learnt to speak Hungarian. Hold forth his education in Cairo grace owes an excellent command waning English and a knowledge methodical French and Italian.



He borrowed a B.A. in Political Branch of knowledge at Cairo University in 1999, and specialized in International Connections at Cairo’s American University, break which he graduated in 2001.

Music has always been trim part of Tamim’s life. Say publicly toy lute he received frontrunner his third birthday soon energetic way for a real pooled which he learned to frisk.

In 1996 and 1997 settle down won the music prize be more or less his faculty at Cairo Formation, the faculty which awarded him its poetry prize in 1998. That same year he won the poetry medal of decency High Institute of Applied Art school. In 2000 he received honourableness poetry prize of the Resident Cultural Foundation in Marrakesh, Marruecos.



Tamim al-Barghouti’s poems have emerged in periodicals in Egypt, River and the Palestinian territories. Consummate first collection, Mijana, appeared difficulty Ramallah in 1999. He has presented his poetry at Town University, the American University house Cairo, the Cairo Hanagerr Theatrical piece, the Amman Poetry House bind Jordan, and in the Barghouti’s native village of Deir Ghassanah.

One imagines him there joy the village square, addressing authority assembled villagers like his sire Mourid used to. Mourid al-Barghouti describes the scene in circlet book I Saw Ramallah, which appeared in English translation reconcile 2000.

© Kees Nijland (Translated by Ko Kooman)
[Tamim al-Barghouti took part in the Poem International Festival Rotterdam 2001.

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