Birth: NULL/NULL/1939 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in 1939 in Al-Zarqa, Jordan, to a Palestinian Druze family; was raised in Al-Rameh in the Galilee and attended Al-Rameh village school as well as the Terra Sancta College in Nazareth; took up a teaching position in an Israeli public school, from which he was dismissed because of his political views; worked in education for five years then moved to the field of politics and journalism; still writing poems and plays widely read in the Arab World; published his first collection in 1958; got involved with the Israeli Communist Party in the mid-1960s and became a member in 1967, while imprisoned in Haifa (was arrested on the first day of the June 1967 War); held under house arrest and was imprisoned repeatedly by Israel for his political activism; worked as editor of Al-Ghad newspaper and of Al-Ittihad (the Communist Party’s newspaper); served as editor-in-chief of Al-Jadid monthly magazine; some of his poems were set to music; chief editor of the Israeli-Arab newspaper Kull Al-Arab; published numerous novels, articles and poetry collections, incl. Songs of Alleys (1965), Waiting for the Thunderbird (1968), I Love You As Death Desires (1980) and The Dimensions of the Spirit (1983); one of the foremost contemporary poets of Palestine.
