He was one of the founding members of the Arab Writers Union in 1962, of which he was made vice president in 1969.

[6] Following the death of Hafez al-Assad in 2000, he joined 98 other prominent Syrian intellectuals as a signatory of the Statement of 99.

[7][8][9] Al-Jundi was one of several free verse poets who rejected traditional Arabic prosody in the early 1960s,[10] part of a larger movement of Middle Eastern modernization at the time.

[11] The lack of steady meter and rhyming couplets was controversial, as was the investigation of more existential topics such as the nature of being, nothingness, and death.

Though disdained by many contemporaries, the movement was well received by the younger generation in Beirut and soon gained popularity throughout the region.