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The late poet and thinker Hussein Al-Barghouti was born in the village of Kober, northwest of the city of [[Ramallah]], on May 5, 1954. He spent his childhood years between his hometown of Kober, where his mother resided, and Beirut, where his father worked. After graduating from high school, he joined the Political Science and State Economics program at Budapest University of Economics in Hungary. In the year (1979), he represented Palestine at the Academy of Creative Writing at the University of Iowa (IWP) in the United States of America. After returning to a Palestinian, he graduated from Birzeit University and obtained a BA in General English Literature (1983). He worked as a teaching assistant for one year at Birzeit University before heading to the United States, where he obtained a master’s and doctorate degrees in comparative literature between the years (1985-1992) from University of Washington in Seattle. He returned to Palestine to work as a professor of philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University until the year (1997) and professor of literary criticism and theater at Al-Quds University until the year (2000). During this period, he was a founding member of the Palestinian House of Ten, a member of the administrative board of the Palestinian Writers Union, editor-in-chief of Ugarit magazine, and editor-in-chief of the Poets’ magazine until his death on May 1 (2002), when he died in his hometown of Cooper due to a disease that lasted several years. Barghouti has published more than sixteen poetry, novel, biography, criticism and folkloric writing, in addition to dozens of research and intellectual, critical and critical studies in several languages ​​and in many books, magazines and newspapers. In another context, Al-Barghouti has drawn up scenarios for four films and wrote about seven plays for local and international bands, in addition to writing many songs for different bands towards Sabreen, Al-Rahla, Sanabel, and the Revival of Our Country band.