When : 13th October 2006 - 7:30pm
Where : Geoffrey Manton Building
Price : £5.00

Mourid Barghouti left Palestine to study in Cairo shortly before the Six Day War, and became an exile for 29 years. His memoir of that homecoming, I Saw Ramallah, was described by Edward Saïd as “one of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement that we now have.” It won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 1998, and Barghouti received the Palestine Award for Poetry in 2000.

Cairo-born Londoner Ahdaf Soueif’s sweeping The Map of Love turned the desert romance on its head, somehow missing out on the 2000 Booker, despite being hailed as “the best read” by jury chairman John Sutherland. Much of her other work has centred on Palestine. Her translation of I Saw Ramallah brought Barghouti’s memoir to world attention.

Tickets £5/£4 full PLF pass £30/£25 (0161 236 5725)

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