Tawfiq Zayyad

Tawfiq Ziad was born on 7 May 1929 in Nazareth. He was educated in his native town, then studied Soviet literature in Moscow from 1962 to 1964, and translated into Arabic Russian works and the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet. Elected to the Knesset in 1973 on the Rakah list, then a member for Hadash, he led peaceful demonstrations, became mayor of Nazareth in December 1975 and remained so until his death, on 5 July 1994.

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• Poetryأشد على أياديكمTawfiq Zayyad · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature