| His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa | He 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 |
|---|---|
| During the 19 Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation |
| Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine then under the British mandate in 1936 | In Beirut, published the novel Men in the Sun 1962 |
|---|---|
| After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria | Arles : Actes Sud, 2005 |
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.
25