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Ghassan Kanafani
87 books1,640 followersGhassan 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 writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens.
In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation. In Beirut, he published the novel Men in the Sun (1962). He also published extensively on literature and politics, focusing on the the Palestinian liberation movement and the refugee experience, as well as engaging in scholarly literary criticism, publishing several books about post-1948 Palestinian and Israeli literature.
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 writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens.
In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation. In Beirut, he published the novel Men in the Sun (1962). He also published extensively on literature and politics, focusing on the the Palestinian liberation movement and the refugee experience, as well as engaging in scholarly literary criticism, publishing several books about post-1948 Palestinian and Israeli literature.
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January 23, 2023
و كم هو جميل أن يختار الإنسان القدر الذي يريد..
February 21, 2023
"كم هو بشعٌ الموتُ، وكم هو جميلٌ أن يختارَ الإنسانُ القدرَ الذي يريد."
المعنى الحرفي ل "أفدي وطني بدمي".
صحيح أنها قصة قصيرة لكنها تحمل من المعاني والرسائل ما لا تحمله غيرها من الروايات الكثيرة والطويلة بلا داعٍ. عوّدنا غسان دوماً أن خيرُ الكلامِ ما قلَّ ودلَّ. فيقول بصريح العبارة: "أن المِدفعَ طرفٌ آخرٌ في الموضوعِ، طرفٌ هامٌ، وأن وجودهُ يحافظ على أهميتهِ قبل أن يموتَ هو، وبعد أن يموت."
المعنى الحرفي ل "أفدي وطني بدمي".
صحيح أنها قصة قصيرة لكنها تحمل من المعاني والرسائل ما لا تحمله غيرها من الروايات الكثيرة والطويلة بلا داعٍ. عوّدنا غسان دوماً أن خيرُ الكلامِ ما قلَّ ودلَّ. فيقول بصريح العبارة: "أن المِدفعَ طرفٌ آخرٌ في الموضوعِ، طرفٌ هامٌ، وأن وجودهُ يحافظ على أهميتهِ قبل أن يموتَ هو، وبعد أن يموت."
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