The story of a Palestinian poet and a Syrian Christian professor who championed the Palestinian cause.
Meet two Arab writers from different regions of the Middle East who shared a common cause: Muin Bseiso and Constantin Zurayk.
Bseiso, a Palestinian poet who wrote about life in Gaza at a time when it was controlled by Egypt, was twice imprisoned for his left-wing political views.
Zurayk, a Christian and Syrian Arab nationalist revolutionary who became a history professor at the American University of Beirut, also secretly supported armed resistance groups in the region. Several sources claim that he was among the first to use the term “Nakba” to refer to the displacement of more than 750,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948.
The film Rebel Writers: Palestine & Syria tells the stories of two men who championed Arab nationalism and the Palestinian cause in different ways.