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Tawfiq Ziad (Arabic: توفيق زيّاد, romanized: Tawfīq Ziyyād; Hebrew: תאופיק זיאד, romanized: Ta'ufík Ziyád; 7 May 1929 – 5 July 1994), also romanized Tawfik Zayyad or Tawfeeq Ziad, was a Palestinian politician, poet, and activist best known for his advocacy for Palestinian citizens of Israel, Palestinian revolutionary poetry.
Jul 5, 2020 · Digital project: Biography | A native of Nazareth, Tawfiq Zayyad is a prominent poet of resistance and scholar of Palestinian popular literature. Zayyad published several poetry collections, such as the 1966 diwan I Shake Your Hands, fervently. He was a leader of the Israeli Communist Party—the most popular among the Palestinian Arab minority ...
Tawfik Zayyad (Tawfiq Ziad) was a Palestinian poet, writer, scholar and politician. He was born in Nazareth in 1929 and died on July 5, 1994 in a dreadful car crash while on his way to meet Yasser Arafat in Jericho after the Oslo agreements. He participated in Palestinian political life in occupied Palestine, was elected mayor of Nazareth, and ...
Feb 2, 2021 · Feb 2, 2021. “The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad,” by Tamir Sorek, Stanford University Press, 2020; 264 pps., $26. Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-1994) was a leader, a prominent Palestinian national poet, a communist, a native son and mayor of Nazareth and a member of Knesset for almost 20 years. The first-ever biography of Zayyad, by ...
Jul 5, 1994 · توفيق زيّاد. Birth. 7 May 1929, Nazareth. Death. 5 July 1994, Jericho. Tawfiq Zayyad was born in Nazareth to Amin Zayyad and Nazha al-Khawaja. He had four brothers (Sabih, Misbah, Abd al-Fattah, and Ahmad) and four sisters (In‘am, Na‘ima, Ni‘ma, and Rahija). He and his wife, Na'ila Yusuf Sabbagh, had four children: Wahiba, Amin ...
I kiss the ground on which you tread, And I say: I will redeem you. I offer you my eyesight, The warmth of my heart I give you. The tragedy I endure is my share of your plight. I appeal to you, I shake your hands. I did not disparage my homeland, Neither did I yield.
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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 ...
