I Saw Ramallah
by Mourid Barghouti
Exile ends. He crosses the bridge. Nothing's left.
you want to understand displacement as a lived experience rather than a statistic
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In 1996 Barghouti crossed a bridge over the Jordan River and returned to Ramallah after thirty years of exile. This slim memoir is the record of that return — what it feels like to come back to a place that has changed without you, where your childhood home belongs to someone else, where you are a foreigner in the city you grew up in. Edward Said called it the most eloquent book ever written about the Palestinian experience. One of the most quietly devastating dispatches on this entire shelf.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Palestine • Middle East
- Voice
- Written by a Palestinian author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
