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Mourid Barghouti: I Was Born There, I Was Born Here [2011] hardback ZPBFI a lunatic asylum inmate ravesIn 2000 Mourid Barghouti published I Saw Ramallah, the acclaimed memoir that told of returning in 1996 to his Palestinian home for the first time since exile following the Six Day War in 1967. I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Ironically, a few years later Tamim had himself been arrested for taking part in a