The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
“Hungarian Proverb: A dish of cabbages can be heated when it grows cold, but it will never taste the same.” — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea. — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
“It is easy to blur the truth with a simple linguistic trick: start your story from "Secondly." Yes, this is what Rabin did. He simply neglected to speak of what happened first. Start your story with "Secondly," and the world will be turned upside-down. Start your story with "Secondly," and the arrows of the Red Indians are the original criminals… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share
“I tried to put the displacement between parenthesis, to put a last period in a long sentence of the sadness of history, personal and public history. But I see nothing except commas. I want to sew the times together. I want to attach one moment to another, to attach childhood to age, to attach the present to the absent and… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share
“In my despair I remember that there is life after death; there is life after death and I have no problem. But I ask:… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
“Palestine at this moment is not the golden map hanging on a golden chain adorning the throats of women exile. I used to wonder… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
“And now I pass from my exile to their...homeland? My homeland? The West Bank and Gaza? The Occupied Territories? The Areas? Judea and Samaria?… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
“When you hear on the radio and read in newspapers and magazines and books and speeches the words 'the Occupied Territories' year after year,… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not just to… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
“You look out of the car window on your right and are surprised to find that the narrow, worn strip that carries you has… — Mourid Barghouti Copy Share Image
