The Trinity of Fundamentals, written by Wisam Rafeedie, is a novel of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. Rafeedie wrote the novel in Naqab prison in 1993 after undergoing nine years of hiding between 1982-1991, evading the Zionist occupation forces in service of the Palestinian struggle for liberation. The novel, a fictionalized autobiography of this experience, follows the story of Kan’an—a young man driven by an unshakeable commitment to the Palestinian cause. His journey as a revolutionary is marked by sacrifice, struggle, camaraderie, love,  isolation, and ultimately, conviction in the liberation of Palestine. Love, revolution, and life—these are the “Trinity of Fundamentals'' that pave Kan’an’s path of struggle. 

The only way this novel exists, both in Arabic and in English, is due to collective work and organization. Rafeedie was only able to write the novel during his imprisonment through a clandestine system of knowledge production established by the prisoners’ movement, which provided him with the resources to write the novel and transfer it across cells. When the novel was confiscated by prison guards, the novel was saved by fellow prisoners who had transcribed and distributed the novel across the prison system. The eventual liberation of this novel from Zionist prisons was the result of many sacrifices and victories of Palestinian resistance.