Tamim al-Barghouti

Tamim Al-Barghouti (, born 13 June 1977) is a Palestinian-Egyptian poet, columnist and political scientist. Nicknamed the "poet of Jerusalem" , he is one of the most widely read poets in the Arab World. He received his PhD degree in political science from Boston University in 2004. He grew up in a family interested in Arabic literature. His father was the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti from the Deir Ghassana village, and his mother is the Egyptian novelist and political writer Radwa Ashour.

Life Tamim al-Barghouti was born in Cairo in 1977. He would go with his mother to visit his exiled father living in Budapest on vacations. He then read a commentary on the Seven Long Mu'allaqat, Ibn Abd Rabbih's Al-ʿIqd al-Farīd and Al-Mubarrad's Kitãb al-Kāmil fi-l-Lugha wa-l-Adab (Arabic: الكامل في اللغة والأدب (كتاب)).

On the eve of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, he left Egypt in protest of its position on the invasion. He has then worked for the United Nations at the Division for Palestinian Rights, the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and in 2005 and 2006 at the UN Mission in Sudan. written in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, and the second was "Maqām 'Iraq" ( "Maqam of Iraq") in Standard Arabic in 2005. he has also denounced the Palestinian authority.

In February 2021, Tamim's father, renowned Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, died at the age of 76 in the Jordanian capital Amman, after spending most of his life in exile..

He has a series of short cultural videos on AJ+ in Arabic called Ma'a Tamim in which he recites original poetry or discusses themes in literature, art, and history.

He delivered a speech at the closing ceremony of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

He set a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Arabic verse , which he performed in March 2023 in Doha at the TEDinArabic Summit, a collaboration between TED and the Qatar Foundation, and in November 2025 at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.

Selected works

Academic works

Poetry collections