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Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najati Sidqi

Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najati Sidqi

Sidqi, Najati

Paperback

Series: Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation

Biographies GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1477333223
ISBN13: 9781477333228
Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.45
Language: English

The secret life of a Palestinian Communist activist during the leadup to World War II.

In the public eye, Najati Sidqi was known as a journalist and writer, a translator of Russian classics, and an outspoken opponent of Nazism. However, Sidqi concealed a critical component of his life from the world and his family. He was an underground activist for the Palestinian Communist Party, a risky and influential pursuitthat took him to early Bolshevik Moscow, British courts and prison cells in Palestine, Nazi Germany, intrigue-heavy interwar Paris, and Civil War Spain, Morocco, and Algeria. Throughout his journey, Sidqi continued to write, even as he faced fascism, intense surveillance, active warzones, the death of friends, and exile.

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