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Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani (Arabic: غسان فايز كنفاني ; 8 April 1936 – 8 July 1972) was a prominent Palestinian author and politician, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading Palestinian writers.
Jul 8, 2022 · Ghassan Kanafani: The life of a Palestinian writer. Assassinated by the Israeli Mossad at the age of 36 for his membership of a Palestinian revolutionary group, Kanafani is remembered as one of...
Apr 8, 2024 · Ghassan Kanafani—the Palestinian resistance writer and revolutionary politician who produced some of the Arab world’s most celebrated works of fiction before he was assassinated in 1972—was born in Akka, Mandatory Palestine, on this day in 1936.
Apr 8, 2021 · Celebrated novelist and short-story writer Ghassan Kanafani was born on this day in 1936. Almost fifty years have passed since his assassination at the age of just 36: There is an urgency to Kanafani’s writing, both in its substance and the insistent movements of its style.
Ghassan Kanafani was a member of the central committee of the Popu-lar Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the founder/editor of its much read and widely quoted weekly newspaper Al-Hadaf. Before the PFLP was established, he had been active in the Arab Nationalist Movement
Jul 8, 2022 · From exile to self-lamentation and disorientation, to revolution and resistance, Ghassan Kanafani's revolutionary work continues to inspire new writers and put Palestine at the forefront of literary debate.
Jul 14, 2019 · Ghassan Kanafani was a refugee, a journalist, an editor and a political activist. First and foremost, though, he was a writer, “a commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon...
