EUME
2007/ 2008

Tamim al-Barghouti

Notions of Nation and State in Relation to the Arabic Concepts of ‘Umma’ and ‘Dawla’

is a Palestinian poet and political scientist. He studied political science at Cairo University, the American University in Cairo, and Boston University where he received his Ph.D. in 2004. Al-Barghouti worked at the United Nations, the Division of Palestinian Rights, the Department of Political Affairs in New York and with the Mission in Sudan. He also is a well known Poet and has four published poetry collections in Arabic: Maqam Iraq (Dar Atlas, Cairo 2005), Qaluli li Bethebb Masr (Dar el-Shorouk, Cairo 2002), Al-Manzar (Dar el-Shorouk, Cairo 1999), and Mijana (Palestinian House of Poetry, Ramallah 1999). Two scholarly publications, Benign Nationalism: The Wafd and State building in the Shadow of Colonialism (in Arabic) and The Impossible Compromise in the Middle East (in English) are forthcoming. For more information please visit his website: http://tamimbarghouti.net/.

Notions of Nation and State in Relation to the Arabic Concepts of ‘Umma’ and ‘Dawla’

In Berlin, al-Barghouti will work on a comparative history of concepts by addressing the notions of Nation and State in relation to the Arabic concepts of ‘Umma’ and ‘Dawla’.