He was assassinated in Beirut on 5 November 1980 together with two other members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP).
[3][4] He was sentenced to death due to his alleged role in the assassination of an army chief, Adnan Al Malki, in April 1955.
[4] Poems of Beik were featured in Al Binaa, a paper affiliated with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon.
[4] Therefore, he left Lebanon for Jordan and then, settled in Paris, France, where he resumed his literary studies.
[2] His poems were collected by his close friends and published in three books, namely A Notebook of Absence, Farewell to Poetry and Rivers Cannot Swim in the Sea.
[2] His poems were significantly influenced by the Lebanese civil war and frequently contained sense of disillusionment and despair.
[4] During this period he began to work with Wadie Haddad, a Palestinian leader, and Anis Naccache.
[2] During the attack two colleagues of Beik, Bashir Obeid and Nahia Bijani, who were the members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, were also murdered.