Izzat Ghazzawi

Izzat Ghazzawi (عزت الغزاوي; 4 December 1951 – 4 April 2003) was a Palestinian writer born in Deir al-Ghusun, which was under Jordanian rule, in Tulkarm Governorate. He wrote about the sufferings of the Palestinian people and was arrested many times by Israeli authorities for "political activities". He was a professor at Birzeit University and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought in 2001; together with the Israeli writer Abraham B. Yehoshua and the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, he published book on relations between the Palestinians and the Israelis.