Mourid Barghouti – the Representative of Arabic Exile Literature

Abstract

Arabic Exile Literature is known from the beginnings of the 20^th century when the first refugees from Syria left for the USA. One of the biggest migration streams was caused by establishment of the Israeli State in 1948. Barghouti is a Palestinian who couldn’t return to Ramallah in 1967. During more than fifty years he changed thirty-five flats on three continents. In the paper his verses are discussed in context of modern Palestinian poetry, on the one hand, and in context of Arabic refugee writings, on the other. Bargouti’s identity crisis is connected to his losing in time and space.