Ghassan Kanafani
8 April 1936 – 8 July 1972
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian writer and journalist, author of the novellas Men in the Sun and Returning to Haifa, and a spokesman and editor for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He edited the PFLP weekly Al-Hadaf from 1969 until he was killed by a car bomb in Beirut in 1972.
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Life events
Born into a middle-class family; his father was a lawyer.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe family fled to Lebanon and then settled in Damascus, where they lived as refugees.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEnrolled while working as a teacher for UNRWA; his studies were interrupted by his political activity with the Arab Nationalist Movement.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWorked as a teacher and began contributing articles and short stories to the Kuwaiti press.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRelocated to Lebanon at the invitation of George Habash to work on the Arab Nationalist Movement's publication.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried the Danish educator and activist Anni Hover, with whom he had two children.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRijal fi al-Shams, about three Palestinian refugees smuggled across the desert to Kuwait, became his best-known work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook on the role of spokesman shortly after the founding of the PFLP.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEdited the PFLP's weekly magazine while continuing to write fiction, including Returning to Haifa.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied along with his 17-year-old niece Lamees when a bomb destroyed his car in the Hazmieh district.
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