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Hussein Jamil Barghouthi was born on May 5, 1945, in the village of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah.
He spent his childhood between his birthplace, Kobar, and Beirut, where his father worked.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled in the Political Science and Economics program at the University of Budapest in Hungary, but did not complete his studies there.
He returned to Palestine to study English Literature at Birzeit University, and later earned his master's and doctoral degrees in Comparative Literature from Seattle University in the United States.
He was a founding member of the Palestinian Poetry House, managing editor of the magazine "Al-Shu'ara" (The Poets), editor-in-chief of the Ugarit Council, and a member of the administrative board of the Union of Palestinian Writers.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English Literature, he worked as an assistant professor of Cultural Studies at Birzeit University, and later at Al-Quds University.
He contributed to the writing of numerous screenplays for films, plays, and popular songs.
Barghouthi passed away on May 1, 2002, after a long battle with cancer. He enriched the creative library with more than 16 literary works, distributed between poetry, novels, biography, criticism, and folklore writing, as well as many research papers in both English and Arabic.
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