Tamim al- Barghouti Biography

Tamim al-Barghouti was born in Cairo to an Egyptian mother, Radwa Ashour, and the Palestinian journalist and poet Mourid al-Barghouti, born in Deir Ghassanah near Ramallah on the West Bank. Tamim’s father was expelled from Egypt four months after his son’s birth, and not allowed to return until 1995. For eighteen years the father saw his son only during three-week winter and summer vacations in Budapest, where he was living in exile.

Here Tamim learnt to speak Hungarian. To his education in Cairo he owes an excellent command of English and a knowledge of French and Italian.

He obtained a B.A. in Political Science at Cairo University in 1999, and specialized in International Relations at Cairo’s American University, from which he graduated in 2001.