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Palestinian-Egyptian writer and political scientist

Tamim Al-Barghouti (Arabic: تميم البرغوثي) is a Palestinian-Egyptian poet, columnist and political scientist.^[1] Nicknamed the "poet of Jerusalem" (شاعر القدس),^[2] he is one of the most widely read poets in the Arab World.^[3] He received his PhD degree in political science from Boston University in 2004.^[4][5] He grew up in a family interested in Arabic literature.

His father was the Palestinian poetMourid Barghouti from the Deir Ghassana village, and his mother is the Egyptian novelist and political writer Radwa Ashour.^[6]

Life

Tamim al-Barghouti was born in Cairo in 1977.^[2] He is the son of Palestinian writer and poet Mourid al-Barghouti and the Egyptian writer, Radwa Ashour.^[2] Around the time of Tamim's birth, Egypt was in peace talks with Israel that led to the Camp David Accords in 1979.^[2] President Anwar S