Ghassan Kanafani

This book contains eight short stories written by Ghassan Kanafani over many years, in different places and stages, and collected after his martyrdom. As for "The Stolen Shirt," it was among his earliest writings in the 1950s, first published in Kuwait in 1958, where...

Umm Saad   Umm Saad, "who now stands under the low roof of misery in the high rank of battle, pushing, and continues to push more than everyone else." This is how the Palestinian political novelist Ghassan Kanafani introduced the Palestinian mother when he...

Death Bed No. 12 Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani It is customary for any writer's first production to obtain a "passport" for the reader... a word from a famous pen at the beginning of the book... or brief sentences on the back cover, or a...

A world not ours Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani “O people… read these stories twice, once to know that you are dead without graves, and once again to know that you are preparing your graves without realizing it… graves of culture without revolution and revolution...

The stolen shirt Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani This book includes eight short stories written by Ghassan Kanafani over several years, in different places and at different times, and collected after his martyrdom. "The Stolen Shirt" was among the first stories written in the 1950s...

What's left for you? Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani "What Remains for You" is Ghassan Kanafani's second attempt at writing a novel. Coming after "Men in the Sun," it attempts to express the will to move beyond the self to action, from personal concerns that...

Umm Saad Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani Umm Saad is the voice of that Palestinian class that paid dearly for the defeat, and which now stands under the low ceiling of misery in the high ranks of the battle.

Land of Sad Oranges Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani Land of Sad Oranges depicts, in its various stories, the multiple facets of the Palestinian tragedy, as if it wanted the story to be a mirror of reality and memory, and for language to be a...

Resistance Literature in Occupied Palestine 1948-1966 Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani Attempts to chronicle the literature of resistance among a people usually took place after liberation, for self-evident reasons that need not be delved into in detail. However, with regard to the literature of resistance...

Death Bed No. 12 Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani It is customary for any writer's first production to obtain a "passport" for the reader... a word from a famous pen at the beginning of the book... or brief sentences on the back cover, or a...

The lover Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani This book includes three unfinished novels. It's as if Ghassan Kanafani wanted his bomb-crippled body to write the ending. Yet the ending is never written. With this writer, there are never endings. There is research that opens new...

In Zionist literature Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani As usual, Kanafani turns to what many would not think of, examining literature and language. He draws the reader's attention to the Hebrew language and how it was used only in religious writings and prayers. He then...

Palestinian resistance literature under occupation Author's name: Ghassan Kanafani In the three sections of this analytical study - the first in-depth study to appear in the Arab world on this important subject - Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani presents the cultural situation of the Arabs...

The Other Thing Author: Ghassan Kanafani   The novel "The Other Thing" was first published in the weekly "Al-Hawadeth" magazine, which was published in Beirut, in nine consecutive episodes starting from Friday, June 25, 1966, under the title "Who Killed Laila Al-Hayek". Kanafani did...