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23 July 2010

Words in Pictures: Mourid Barghouti

The Palestinian poet reads extracts from his work.

By Mike Sweeney

In this week’s issue, travel writer Stefan Simanowitz reports from FiSahara, an annual film festival held in a Saharawi refugee camp in the Algerian desert. He cites Mourid Barghouti‘s aphorism that “if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story.”

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