Son of Mourid Barghouti and Radwa Ashour, Tamim al-Barghouti rose to public fame with his colloquial poem "Fi al-Quds" (In Jerusalem), recited on television in 2009 and watched online tens of millions of times.
Recurring themes
the colloquial Egyptian-Palestinian poem
the Tahrir generation
poetry as televised event
the inheritance of two literary parents
Selected works
- 1999Mijana
- 2008In Jerusalem
- 2017Banat al-Khusus