Mourid Barghouti (Arabic: مريد البرغوثي, Murīd al-Barghūthī; 8 July 1944 – 14 February 2021) was a Palestinian poet and writer.

Barghouti was born in Deir Ghassana, near Ramallah, on the West Bank, in 8 July 1944.

[2][6] This event inspired his autobiographical novel Ra'aytu Ram Allah (I Saw Ramallah), published by Dar Al Hilal (Cairo, 1997), which won him the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in the same year.

[9] In an interview with Maya Jaggi in The Guardian, Barghouti was quoted as saying: "I learn from trees.

Just as many fruits drop before they're ripe, when I write a poem I treat it with healthy cruelty, deleting images to take care of the right ones.