I Saw Ramallah

In 1966 Mourid Barghouti went to Cairo, Egypt for higher studies. In 1967, after the Six-Day War, when he came back to Palestine after completing his studies, he was barred to enter the country. Like many others he started living abroad. Thirty years later, after continuous struggle, he was allowed to enter Ramallah, his own hometown, where he was born and had grown up.^[5]

Edward Said wrote that the book was "one of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement that we now have". A review in The Guardian said that the novel "is an intensely lyrical account of the poet's return to his hometown".^[1]