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Friday, 19 February 2021, 5:10 pm The renowned Palestinian poet and novelist Mourid Barghouti died on 12 February 2021, at the age of 77 in Amman, Jordan. He was born in the village of Deir Ghassaneh, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank in 1944, 4 years before the State of Israel came into existence. In 1963, Barghouti travelled to Cairo to study English Literature. After Israeli authorities occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, they banned him from returning back to his village near Ramallah. Barghouti spent most of his life in exile in Egypt, Hungary, Lebanon and Jordan. Wherever he was, under whatever circumstances, he wrote poetry. I gave everything to poetry, which is the

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