Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine then under the British mandate in 1936 | 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 |
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His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa | Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine then under the British mandate in 1936 |
Arles : Actes Sud, 1997.
Palestinian Personalities: a Biographic Dictionary | |
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In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation | After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria |
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.
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