Tamim Al Barghouthi

Tamim Al Barghouti is a Palestinian poet and political scientist. Tamim was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1977. He studied politics at Cairo University, the American University in Cairo, and Boston University where he received his PhD in 2004.

Tamim has four published poetry collections in Arabic, he also wrote a weekly feature on Arab culture, history and identity for the Lebanese Daily Star between 2003 and 2004.

Al-Barghouti, worked at the United Nations, the Division of Palestinian Rights, the Department of Political Affairs in New York. He was later appointed an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, however a work permit was not forthcoming, and he had to leave to join the United Nation Mission in Sudan.

In 2007 Tamim became a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.

Al Barghouti is currently writing a book on political identity in the Middle East for Pluto Press, London.

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