Tamim Al Barghouti

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Tamim Al Barghouti is a Palestinian poet and political scientist.

Born in Cairo in 1977 to an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father, he has four poetry collections, meejana (Ramallah 1999), Al-Manzar (Cairo 2000), Qaluli Bethebb Masr (Cairo 2005), 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).

Tamim Al Barghouti writes poetry in Standard Arabic as well as the Palestinian, Egyptian and Iraqi colloquial dialects.

He obtained a B.A. in Political Science at Cairo University in 1999, and specialized in International Relations at the American University in Cairo, from which he graduated in 2001. He received a PhD in political science from Boston University in 2004, and became an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo in 2005.

In 2003 and 2004 he wrote a weekly column in the Lebanese Daily Star newspaper, on colonialism and Arab history and identity.

Music has always been a part of Tamim’s life. In 1996 and 1997 he won the music prize of his faculty at Cairo University, the faculty which awarded him its poetry prize in 1998. That same year he won the poetry medal of the High Institute of Applied Arts. In 2000 he received the poetry prize of the Regional Cultural Foundation in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Official website: www.tamimbarghouti.net