TY - BOOK ID - 86059349 TI - The optimist : A social biography of Tawfiq Zayyad PY - 2020 SN - 1503612740 0804797471 1503612732 9781503612747 9780804797474 9781503612730 PB - Stanford Stanford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Nationalists KW - Poets, Palestinian Arab KW - Politicians KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. KW - History KW - Zayyād, Tawfīq. KW - Palestinian Arab poets KW - Nationalism KW - Israel-Arab conflicts KW - Israel-Palestine conflict KW - Israeli-Arab conflict KW - Israeli-Palestinian conflict KW - Jewish-Arab relations KW - Palestine-Israel conflict KW - Palestine problem (1948- ) KW - Palestinian-Israeli conflict KW - Palestinian Arabs KW - Ziyād, Tawfīq, KW - زياد، توفيق KW - زياد، توقق KW - Communism. KW - Israel. KW - Nationalism. KW - Nazareth. KW - Palestinians. KW - Poetry. KW - Secularism. KW - Palestine KW - Politics and government KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political KW - Zayyād, Tawfīq KW - Ziyād, Tawfīq UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86059349 AB - 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. ER -