This list was compiled after a survey of hundreds of critics and was announced at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2013. Many critics consider this film as one of the most distinguished political films of world cinema, occupying tenth place in the list of the 100 most important movies of Arab cinema since its beginnings. The film won the Golden Prize at the Carthage Festival for Arab and African cinema in 1973.
This film was directed by the Egyptian Tawfiq Salih and produced by the General Film Institution in Damascus. Many of his works have been translated and published in sixteen languages.Īfter he was assassinated, some of his novels and stories were turned into feature films or shorts, such as his first novel Men in the Sun, which in 1973 was adapted into a feature film entitled The Deceived. He wrote short stories, novels, and plays as well as journalistic articles and analytic studies Arab publishing houses (including Dar al-Talia, Muassasat al-Abhath al-Arabiyya, and Manshurat al-Rimal) have published editions of his collected works. He then became its official spokesman and was in charge of its media activities and in 1969 became editor of al-Hadaf, the movements magazine. In 1967 he became the editor of the weekly supplement of the daily al-Anwar, remaining in that post until 1969. In 1963 he became editor of the daily al-Muharrir and in charge of its monthly supplement Filastin.
There he joined the editorial board of the magazine al-Hurriyya published by the movement. He also wrote for the weekly magazine al-Fajr, which was published by the movement. In the daytime and at night he pursued his studies until he obtained the intermediate school certificate in 1953, and then he worked as an art teacher in UNRWA schools in Damascus.Īfter he met George Habash, he began to write for the weekly magazine al-Rai. The family then left Lebanon for Syria and settled in Damascus. When he was twelve years old, he and his family were forced to leave Jaffa before it fell to the Zionist forces in 1948 they sought refuge in Lebanon. He was married to a Danish national, Anni Hver, and they had two children, Fayiz and Laila. He had four brothers, Ghazi, Marwan, Adnan and Hassan and two sisters, Fayzah and Suha.
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