Tawfiq zayyad biography wikipedia

Zayyad completed his education in the Nazareth government schools, obtaining his secondary school certificate in While studying, he used to help out his father in his grocery shop. These teachers exposed their students to what was being published in al-Ittihad newspaper and al-Mihmaz magazine. In , Zayyad led a student demonstration protesting pro-Zionist British policy.

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Before the Nakba of , Zayyad joined the Nazareth branch of the National Liberation League in Palestine, which was established in and included Arab communists who had split from their Jewish comrades in the Palestine Communist Party. At that period also, his love of literature and general culture became apparent, and he began publishing his earliest poems in the late forties.

Zayyad, along with other comrades from the League who were able to remain in Arab areas occupied by Israel, joined the Israel Communist Party established in October Throughout the fifties and until the early sixties, Zayyad was active in trade union activities in Nazareth, within the framework of the Arab Workers Congress until that organization dissolved itself in July Later, he worked within the Communist bloc inside the Histadrut organization, writing numerous articles in the Haifa al-Ittihad newspaper about the condition of the workers, especially the Arabs, in Israel.

In March , a demonstration began at the Arraba elementary school and ended with a mass meeting to protest against the capitation tax, imposed on Arab citizens who were not subject to obligatory military service. After the demonstration, the Israeli police arrested Zayyad and sent him to the Tiberias prison, where he was beaten and insulted by the interrogators.

At the beginning of July , Zayyad was elected during the elections for the Council of the Nazareth Municipality in the second spot on the Communist and non-Partisan List, which won six out of fifteen seats.

Tawfiq Ziad also romanized Tawfik Zayyad or Tawfeeq Ziad, was a Palestinian-Arab politician, poet, and activist who served in Israel's Knesset.

At the very first session of the Municipal Council he suggested that the public be allowed to attend its sessions, a proposal rejected by most of the other councilors. In , and in the wake of a demonstration planned in secret by the Communist Party in response to the refusal of the Israeli authorities to grant the party permission to organize a 1 May demonstration in Nazareth and Umm al-Fahm, Zayyad was again arrested and spent six months between the two prisons of al-Jalama and al-Damun.

During this period his poetry was prolific.