Tamim Al-Barghouti

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tamim Al-Barghouti (Arabic:, born 1977, Cairo) is a Palestinian poet and political scientist. Al-Barghouti comes from a lineage that is well-known in Arabic literature. His father is the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, and his mother is the Egyptian novelist and scholar, Radwa Ashour. He has written four poetry collections: meejana (Ramallah 1999), Al-Manzar (Cairo 2000), Qaluli Bethebb Masr (Cairo 2005), and Maqam Iraq (Cairo 2005). He is also the author of Benign Nationalism: Egyptian Nation State Building under Occupation (2007)and has recently published a book entitled "The Umma and The Dawla: The Nation State and the Arab Middle East" (Pluto Press, 2008).