TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tamir Sorek
TI  - The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad
T2  - Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Stanford
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Tawfiq Zayyad
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Biography
KW  - Nationalists
KW  - Palestinian Arab poets
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1948-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Communism and anticolonialism -- Steadfastness -- Badges of modernity -- In the crossfire -- Municipal struggles -- National leadership -- Children in the battlefield -- A secular holy warrior -- A spoke in the wheel of history -- Oslo : the sky is the limit
N2  - "A biography of Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-1994), noted Palestinian nationalist poet, activist, mayor of Nazareth, and member of the Israeli Knesset. Zayyad protested against the Israeli military rule (1948-66) and the occupation of Palestinian territories after 1967, but he also remained a committed advocate for the two-state solution. His life opens a window into the experiences of the '48 Palestinians and Arab-Palestinian nationalism, and to many of the key events of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the 20th century (notably, the creation of the state of Israel, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first intifada, and the Oslo Accords)"--
ER  -