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Tawfiq Zayyad: Poet, Communist, Mayor

By: Leena Dallasheh

Under the leadership of poet and activist Tawfiq Zayyad, Nazareth emerged in the 1970s as a hub of anti-Zionist resistance.

Tawfiq Zayyad was both a poet and a prominent Palestinian politician, serving as the mayor of Nazareth as well as a member of the Israeli Knesset. To this day, his 1966 poem “I Call on You” is a Palestinian national anthem of sorts, part of the “literature of resistance,” as Ghassan Kanafani dubbed it. It […]

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Tawfiq Zayyad was both a poet and a prominent Palestinian politician, serving as the mayor of Nazareth as well as a member of the Israeli Knesset. To this day, his 1966 poem “I Call on You” is a Palestinian national anthem of sorts, part of the “literature of resistance,” as Ghassan Kanafani dubbed it. It […]

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Tawfiq Zayyad was both a poet and a prominent Palestinian politician, serving as the mayor of Nazareth as well as a member of the Israeli Knesset. To this day, his 1966 poem “I Call on You” is a Palestinian national anthem of sorts, part of the “literature of resistance,” as Ghassan Kanafani dubbed it. It […]

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Tawfiq Zayyad was both a poet and a prominent Palestinian politician, serving as the mayor of Nazareth as well as a member of the Israeli Knesset. To this day, his 1966 poem “I Call on You” is a Palestinian national anthem of sorts, part of the “literature of resistance,” as Ghassan Kanafani dubbed it. It […]