“أنتِ جميلة كوطن محرر وأنا متعب كوطن محتل” – مريد البرغوثي لرضوى عاشور “you’re as beautiful as a liberated homeland and I’m as tired as a colonized one.” Mourid Al-Barghouti to Radwa Ashour Some of the most epic and powerful love stories belong to those who have given their lives to a political cause. On the top of that list in living Arab history are Mourid Al-Barghouti, the Palestinian poet, and Radwa Ashour, the Egyptian literary. In 1944, Mourid Al-Barghouti was born – a new addition to the large Barghouti family – in Deir Ghassana, near Ramallah, Palestine. At only four years old, Al-Barghouti and his family were forced to leave Palestine, following the Nakba of 1948. The family, large and united, were forced apart, scattered across the world, only reuniting in a single city for a few days or a week at the most every few years. Fate intervened, sending Mourid to Egypt after his acceptance into Cairo University to study English Literature. In 1946, Radwa Ashour was born to lawyer and literature enthusiast Mustafa Ashour, and poet and artist Mai Azzam, in a house in El-Manial, near the…
Mourid Al-Barghouti and Radwa Ashour: A Love Story Entrenched in Resistance
February 14, 2022
