For a Palestinian is a deeply political love story. The play tells two parallel stories - of Bilal, a young man living in Britain who travels back to Palestine for a wedding, and of translator Wa'el Zuaiter.
Zuaiter was a Palestinian translator who was killed as part of Israel's "Operation Wrath of God" after the 1972 Munich massacre which saw two members of the Israeli Olympic team being killed by a Palestinian terrorist group.
For a Palestinian takes you back to the beginning of Zuaiter's life, telling you about his life in Italy and how he was in the process of translating One Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into Italian, for example. It also tells his love life as well as his political work.
