Tamir Sorek

Tamir Sorek

Tamir Sorek is a Liberal Arts Professor of Middle East History at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendar, Monuments, and Martyrs (Stanford, 2015) and Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave (2007).

Books

    The Optimist: a social biography of Tawfiq Zayyad

    The Optimist: a social biography of Tawfiq Zayyad

    Author(s):

    Tamir Sorek

    Publisher:

    Stanford University Press

    Published:

    July 2020
    Tawfiq Zayyad (1929–94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist. For four decades, he was a dominant figure in political life in Israel, as a local council member, mayor of Nazareth, and member of the Israeli...

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