The story of a Palestinian poet and Christian Syrian professor who fought for the Palestinian trigger.
Meet two Arab writers from completely different components of the Center East who had one factor in widespread – Muin Bseiso and Constantin Zurayk.
Bseiso, a Palestinian poet who wrote about life in Gaza underneath Egyptian rule, has been jailed twice for his left-wing political opinions.
Zurayk, a Christian Syrian revolutionary Arab nationalist turned professor of historical past on the American College of Beirut, additionally secretly supported armed resistance teams all through the area. A number of sources state that he was among the many first to make use of the time period “Nakba” to consult with the displacement of greater than 750,000 Palestinians when Israel was based in 1948.
Insurgent Writers: Palestine & Syria tells the tales of two males who championed Arab nationalism and the Palestinian trigger in several methods.