Abdulrahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud (; ‎ 1937 in

Bayt Daras Bayt Daras () was a Palestinian Arab town located northeast of Gaza and approximately above sea level. The village was depopulated and destroyed during the 1948 Palestine war, as part of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and the Nakba. Histo ...

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– 17 April 2010) was a Palestinian poet.

Biography

In 1948, when there was abandonment of his village, he and his family settled in

Jabalia refugee camp Jabalia Camp () is a Palestinian refugee camp in the North Gaza Governorate of the Gaza Strip, north of Jabalia. It is the largest refugee camp in Palestine, with more than 100,000 inhabitants. The camp only covers an area of 1.4 km2 making i ...

. The first poem wrote by Baroud was written while he was in primary school. He studied in his village until the fifth grade primary, and completed high school, moving between schools and refugee agencies in the

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. He was sent for further study to complete his university studies in the

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. He received a bachelor's degree, and then won a scholarship from the University of Cairo to get his masters and doctorate degrees. Afterwards, he moved to work at

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as a professor. He wrote most of his poems while working for the university. He was killed in April 2010.

Most famous works

*هجوم السلام

References

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