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Ghassan Kanafani

Born

in Akka, Palestinian Territory, Occupied

April 08, 1936

Died

July 08, 1972

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Ghassan Kanafani (Arabic: غسان كنفاني‎‎)

Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad

Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine (then under the British mandate) in 1936. His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees.

After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. There, he began wri ...more

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	عائد إلى حيفا by Ghassan Kanafani, غسان كنفاني 4.38 avg rating — 26,701 ratings — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	رجال في الشمس by Ghassan Kanafani, غسان كنفاني 4.21 avg rating — 24,623 ratings — published 1963 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	أرض البرتقال الحزين by Ghassan Kanafani, غسان كنفاني 4.03 avg rating — 12,358 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان by Ghassan Kanafani, غسان كنفاني 3.74 avg rating — 11,124 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	أم سعد by Ghassan Kanafani, غسان كنفاني 4.01 avg rating — 7,651 ratings — published 1969 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ما تبقى لكم by Ghassan Kanafani, غسان كنفاني 3.59 avg rating — 5,123 ratings — published 1966 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani, Hilary Kilpatrick (Translator) 4.37 avg rating — 3,746 ratings — published 1999 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	موت سرير رقم 12 by Ghassan Kanafani, غسان كنفاني 4.03 avg rating — 3,511 ratings — published 1961 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	القميص المسروق by Ghassan Kanafani, غسان كنفاني 3.99 avg rating — 3,020 ratings — published 1958 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	عن الرجال والبنادق by Ghassan Kanafani, Ghassan Kanafani 4.04 avg rating — 2,934 ratings — published 1968 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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الأثار الكاملة (4 books)
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“Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.”
― Ghassan Kanafani

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“You have something in this world.
So, stand for it.”
― Ghassan Kanafani

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“After all, in the final analysis, man is a cause.”
― Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories

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