Tawfiq Zayyad (1929–94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a
committed communist activist. For four decades, he was a dominant
figure in political life in Israel, as a local council member,
mayor of Nazareth, and member of the Israeli parliament. Zayyad
personified the collective struggle of the Palestinian citizens of
Israel, challenging the military government following the creation
of the state of Israel, leading the 1976 nationwide strike against
land confiscation, and tirelessly protesting Israeli military
occupation after 1967. With this book, Tamir Sorek offers the first
biography of this charismatic figure. Zayyad's life was one of
balance and contradiction—between his revolutionary writings as
Palestinian patriotic poet and his pragmatic political work in the
Israeli public sphere. He was uncompromising in his protest of
injustices against the Palestinian people, but always committed to
a universalist vision of Arab-Jewish brotherhood. It was this
combination of traits that made Zayyad an exceptional leader—and
makes his biography larger than the man himself to offer a
compelling story about Palestinians and the state of Israel.
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