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Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was a prominent Palestinian author and militant, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading Palestinian writers. Kanafani's works have been translated into more than 17 languages.
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culture · Palestinian author and militant (1936–1972) · politician · novelist · journalist · writer · literary critic · prose writer · teacher · also Ghassan Kanafani, Kanafani
Born 9 April 1936 · Died 8 July 1972 · Q369696
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 3 entries
The Big Issue: Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani review – diaspora, flight and exile
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Countercurrents: Ghassan Kanafani’s Revolution and the Revisionist Academics
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CounterPunch: Ghassan Kanafani: Words of Liberation
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2023· 3 entries
Tehran Times: Ghassan Kanafani plays published in Persian
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Outlookindia: Ghassan Kanafani: The Palestinian Writer Whose Words Live On Amid Wars With Israel
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Libcom: The 1936–39 Revolt in Palestine – Ghassan Kanafani
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2022· 2 entries
Al Bawaba News: Ghassan Kanafani Remembered: The Ins and Outs of a Revolutionary!
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Middle East Eye: Ghassan Kanafani, Zionism and race: What determines the fate of a people
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2020· 1 entry
The Times of Israel: Inspired by Violence? KCL Action Palestine & Ghassan Kanafani
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2019· 1 entry
Tehran Times: Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani to be remembered in Tehran
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1981· 1 entry
For embezzlement and ordering the killing of another official
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Lotus Prize for Literature (1975).
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1972· 2 entries
Died 1972-07-08.
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While he was in Beirut, Kanafani and his 17-year-old niece Lamees were killed by a bomb planted in his car by the Mossad, which was suspected to be in response for the PFLP's role in the Lod Airport massacre; however, Ka
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1969· 2 entries
Drafted a PFLP program in which the movement officially adopted Marxism–Leninism, which marked a departure from pan-Arab nationalism towards revolutionary Palestinian struggle
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Resigned from Al Anwar to edit the PFLP's weekly magazine, Al Hadaf ("The Goal"), while drafting a PFLP program in which the movement officially took up Marxism-Leninism
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1968· 1 entry
And financed by Egypt and the Soviet Union
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1967· 1 entry
Writing essays under the pseudonym of Faris Faris
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1966· 1 entry
And 1968, one critic, Orit Bashkin, has noted that his novels repeat a certain fetishistic worship of arms, and that he appears to depict military means as the only way to resolve the Palestinian tragedy
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1962· 2 entries
His novel, Men in the Sun (Rijal fi-a-shams), reputed to be "one of the most admired and quoted works in modern Arabic fiction," was published to great critical acclaim
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Kanafani was forced briefly to go underground since he, as a stateless person, lacked proper identification papers
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1961· 2 entries
Married Danish pedagogue and children's rights activist Anni Høver, with whom he had two children
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Married Anni Høver, a Danish pedagogue and children's rights activist, with whom he had two children
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1960· 1 entry
Relocated again, this time to Beirut, on the advice of Habash, where he began editing the MAN publication al-Hurriya and took up an interest in Marxist philosophy and politics
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1956· 1 entry
Following his sister Fayzah Kanafani and the brother who had preceded him there, to take up a teaching position
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1955· 1 entry
Before he could complete his degree, with a thesis on "Race and Religion in Zionist Literature", which was to form the basis for his 1967 study On Zionist Literature, Kanafani was expelled from the university for his pol
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1952· 2 entries
Kanafani also enrolled in the Department of Arabic Literature at the University of Damascus
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But before he could complete his degree, he was expelled from the university for his political affiliations with the Movement of Arab Nationalists (MAN), to which he had been recruited by George Habash
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1948· 1 entry
Has been raised as an Israeli Jew, an echo of the Solomonic judgement
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1936· 2 entries
Born 1936-04-09.
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To a middle-class Sunni Muslim family with Kurdish roots
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