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Before the "Door," questions are posed. But the questions remain suspended in a semi-mental space. The metaphor of the ancient myth, similar to the poetry written in that era, provides a framework for raising major human issues: fate (which here takes the form of...

"Peter Pan," or "The Boy Who Would Never Grow Up," was first published in 1904. J.M. Barrie wrote it in memory of his brother who died in a skating accident before reaching the age of fourteen, and his mother always saw him as a...

Ghassan Kanafani wrote "A Bridge to Eternity" for an Arab radio station in 1965, intending it to be broadcast in episodes. However, it was neither published nor broadcast. It is the second of three plays included in his works: "The Door" (1964), "A Bridge...

The novel "The Other Thing" is a narrative fabric we have not encountered in Kanafani's previous or subsequent works. He writes a detective or semi-detective work, transforming the plot into moments of tension to discover the killer and the circumstances surrounding the crime that...

Kanafani completed writing this play in early 1967. However, "The Hat and the Prophet" was not published until 1973, about nine months after Ghassan Kanafani's martyrdom. It was first published in "Shu'un Filastiniyya" (Palestinian Affairs) magazine in April 1973."The Hat and the Prophet" is...

This literature, which remained unknown to us throughout the years of exile, despite it representing the brightest aspect of the struggle of the oppressed people." This book is divided into three main chapters: "Resistance Literature After the Catastrophe," "The Arab Hero in Zionist Fiction...

This book contains three unfinished novels. It is as if Ghassan Kanafani wanted his body, shattered by bombs, to write the ending itself. Yet, the ending is never written. With this writer, there are never any endings. There is the search that opens new...

In Zionist literature The Zionist movement fought with the weapon of literature in a fight that was only matched by its fight with the weapon of politics. “Zionist literature” was an integral and indispensable part of political Zionism, which used it on the widest...

In the three sections of this analytical study—the first in-depth study to appear in the Arab library on this important subject—the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani presents the cultural situation of Arabs in occupied Palestine and the extremely harsh conditions experienced by Palestinian resistance literature...

"What Remains" is Ghassan Kanafani's second novel. It comes after "Men in the Sun," attempting to express the will to move from introspection to action, and from personal concerns that take on general connotations to personal concerns that are part of the general concern.

"Death in Bed No. 12" is the first collection of short stories published by Ghassan Kanafani. It was released in Beirut in 1961 with a brief introduction written by the author, in which he states: "I believe that a book should present itself, and...

A collection of short stories in which Kanafani, like all his literary creations, draws inspiration from the tragedy of the Palestinian people, for whom Ghassan Kanafani wrote nothing else, and from whom he drew inspiration for all his stories. "Men and Rifles" is a...

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...

All the stories in the collection "A World Not Our Own" were written between 1959 and 1963, except for the last story, "The Bride," which was written in 1965. The book was first published in Beirut in 1965. Therefore, we will find a strong...

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...

The Land of Sad Oranges   In its diverse stories, "The Land of Sad Oranges" depicts the multifaceted aspects of the Palestinian tragedy, as if wanting the story to be a mirror of reality and memory, and language to be a series of bows...

The student Osamu Dazai In this book, Osamu Dazai delves deep into the mind of a sixteen-year-old girl living a boring, ordinary life, speaking to us through her own words, conveying her inner feelings and various concepts about things like loneliness, happiness, love, family,...

The Secret Garden As a child whose requests were never refused, Mary Lennox could not have imagined that her life would take such a drastic turn after the sudden death of her parents following a cholera epidemic in India, where she lived. In a...

The little princess Sarah Crewe was loved and respected as a student at Miss Minchin's school for girls, until one day a tragic event turned her life upside down. Forced to live in poverty and work as a maid for the girls who were...

The Adventures of Pinocchio (The Story of a Puppet) by Carlo Collodi... The novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by the Italian author "Carlo Collodi" revolves around a puppet made of pine wood that can move and speak. The word "Pinocchio" means "pine nut". The...