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304:, various Israeli governments, the upper echelons of the bureaucracy and Arabs he considered collaborators with the authorities. At the same time, he made appeals to his "Jewish compatriots", particularly those in the workers' parties to adhere to the universal principles of their progressive movements and to fight against Arab inequality in Israel.
222:, a weekly newspaper. At the time, the Iraqi Jewish critic Eliahu Khazum described Hussein as "the most promising Arab poet in Israel", the "only one interested in the study of Hebrew" and who surprised an audience of Jewish and Arab writers by "reciting his first poem he wrote in Hebrew". That year he published another Arabic volume called
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Hussein decried the morale of those in his generation who sought to simply make a living instead of fighting for their rights. However, he did not blame this perceived submissiveness and aimlessness solely on the Arab youth themselves, but to the environment in which they grew up, with many having
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The choice of these two mentors is clearly relevant to the experience of those
Palestinian Muslims who found themselves reduced from majority to minority status. For the scepticism and pessimism of Abu'l-'Ala al-Ma'arri reflect an age of social decay and political anarchy in Islam while Iliya Abu
292:, they noted the difference between the nostalgia of past "days of greater liberalism and empathy" with the present "days of hatred and violence". Moreover, they expressed their hope that the anthology would foster dialogue between the communities and appreciation of each culture's literature.
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four years later, where he co-founded al-Ard, also known as the
Palestinian Research Center. In 1973, he served as a broadcaster in the Syrian Broadcasting Service's Hebrew-language program. Later in the 1970s, he moved back to New York to serve as the PLO's correspondent to the
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369:. According to Hussein, the neighboring Arab states reacted to the Palestinian Arab calamity by replacing their old leadership. However, in the case of the Palestinians in Israel, the old leadership was restored to control the Arab community on behalf of the state.
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On 2 February 1977, Hussein died in a fire at his New York apartment. On 8 February, he was buried in Musmus, where his tomb has since served as a
Palestinian nationalist symbol. Many of Hussein's works were published in a volume edited by Kamel Ballouta called
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In 1955 he worked as a teacher in
Nazareth, a career which Israeli critic Emile Marmorstein described as "stormy". He taught poor, rural Arabs in dilapidated schoolrooms lacking sufficient textbooks. During his teaching career, he had ongoing struggles with the
468:. According to Kelani, the title of Husain’s poem translates literally as 'Thoughts and Echoes', but she 'chose the English title to reflect my own yearning, and probably that of Husain, for freedom from our personal and collective sense of siege.'
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were both discontinued for lack of funds in 1962, but the former circulated again in 1964. At that time, Hussein began translating the Hebrew works of
Israeli poet
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