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Tamim Al Barghouti is a Palestinian poet,
born in Cairo in 1977 to an Egyptian mother and a
Palestinian father, he has four poetry collections:
Meejana (Ramallah 1999),
Al-Manzar (Cairo 2000),
Qaluli Bethebb Masr (Cairo 2005),
Maqam Iraq (Cairo 2005).
Tamim Al Barghouti writes in Standard Arabic
as well as the Palestinian, Egyptian and Iraqi colloquial
dialects.
He received a PhD in political science from
Boston University in 2004, and became an assistant professor
at the American University in Cairo in 2005. In 2003 and
2004 he wrote a weekly column in the Lebanese Daily Star
newspaper, on colonialism and Arab history and identity.
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