RAMALLAH: Writings and correspondence from jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti will be collected in a new book due out later this year, with his family expressing hope on Friday that it would give a new audience insight into his mindset.
"Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine" will be published in November and feature "private letters to his family, letters to public figures, press interviews, public statements, important historical documents" and personal photos, according to publisher Penguin Random House's Vintage division.
It will also include excerpts from his previous book, 2011's "1000 Days in Solitary Confinement", which was previously only available in Arabic, Vintage said.
Sometimes called the "Mandela of Palestine" by his supporters, Marwan Barghouti, 66, was one of the leaders of the second intifada, the Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s, and is often cited as a possible successor to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
In June 2004, an Israeli court sentenced him to five life sentences after finding him guilty of involvement in four anti-Israeli attacks that killed five people.
"We just want to raise the awareness about who he is, why is he important for the Palestinian cause," Arab Barghouti, who lives in the occupied West Bank, told AFP. "These are his writings so everyone can have access to them."
He added that his mother Fadwa, who has campaigned for her husband's release over the years and wrote the book's introduction, also hoped the publication would broaden the reach of Marwan Barghouti's thoughts.
"She really wishes that people can hear from him and see what he thinks and see his writings, especially his grandchildren," Arab said.
The book's publication will come roughly a year after his family and supporters launched a new campaign to secure Barghouti's release, after his imprisonment caught US President Donald Trump's attention.
In an interview with Time magazine in October 2025 -- shortly after a US-brokered ceasefire went into effect in Gaza -- Trump was asked if he thought Barghouti, as a potentially unifying Palestinian leader, should be released from prison.
Trump responded that he had previously been approached with that question and would be "making a decision" on the matter, but did not elaborate.
Though Arab Barghouti has not been allowed to speak to his father in three years, he said the elder Barghouti represents Palestinian unity and the best chance for a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.
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