{"product_id":"i-was-born-there-i-was-born-here","title":"Mourid Barghouti: I Was Born There, I Was Born Here [2011] hardback","description":"In 2000 Mourid Barghouti published I Saw Ramallah, the acclaimed memoir\u003cbr\u003ethat told of returning in 1996 to his Palestinian home for the first time since\u003cbr\u003eexile following the Six-Day War in 1967.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Was\u003cbr\u003eBorn There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in\u003cbr\u003e1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his\u003cbr\u003eCairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, a few years later\u003cbr\u003eTamim had himself been arrested for taking part in a demonstration against the\u003cbr\u003eimpending Iraq War. He was held in the very same Cairo prison from which his\u003cbr\u003efather had been expelled from Egypt to begin a second exile in Budapest when\u003cbr\u003eTamim was only a few months old. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging freely back and forth in time\u003cbr\u003ebetween the 1990s and the present day, Barghouti weaves into his account of\u003cbr\u003eexile poignant evocations of Palestinian history and daily life - the pleasure\u003cbr\u003eof coffee arriving at just the right moment, the challenge of a car journey\u003cbr\u003ethrough the Occupied Territories, the meaning of home and the importance of\u003cbr\u003ebeing able to say, standing in a small village in Palestine, 'I was born here',\u003cbr\u003erather than saying from exile, 'I was born there'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of life and humour in the face of a\u003cbr\u003eculture of death, I Was Born There, I Was\u003cbr\u003eBorn Here is destined, like its predecessor, to become a classic.","brand":"Barghouti, Mourid","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47806378574163,"sku":"XV81408815588","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":44456294646050,"sku":"9781408815588","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/barghouti-mourid-mourid-barghouti-i-was-born-there-i-was-born-here-2011-hardback-60084228391251.jpg?v=1745935479","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/i-was-born-there-i-was-born-here","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}