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Novelist, storyteller, artist, and Palestinian resistance fighter.

He was born in Akka in 1936, and his family lived in Jaffa.

The occupation displaced him and his family to Lebanon and then Syria.

He obtained his high school diploma in 1953.

He worked in teaching art education in UNRWA schools in Syria and Kuwait.

He joined the Arab Nationalist Movement since its founding, which resulted in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

He wrote in newspapers and magazines, such as: Opinion, Goal and Freedom, and others.

Since 1969, he has worked as a spokesman for the Popular Front, responsible for its media activity, and managing editor of its magazine (Al-Hadaf).

Among his most notable works:

Short story collections:


“The Death of Bed No. 12 and Other Stories.” Beirut: Dar Mneimneh Publications, 1961.
“Land of Sad Oranges.” Beirut: General Union of Palestine Students, 1963.
“A world that is not ours.” Beirut: Dar Al-Tali’ah, 1965.


Novels:


"Men in the Sun". Beirut: Dar Al-Tali’ah, 1963.
“What's left is yours.” Beirut: Dar Al-Tali’ah, 1966.
"Um Saad". Beirut: Dar Al Awda, 1969.
“Back to Haifa.” Beirut: Dar Al Awda, 1969.


Plays:
"The Door". Beirut: Dar Al-Tali’ah, 1964.
“The Hat and the Prophet.” “Palestinian Affairs,” No. 20, April 1973, pp. 45-76.
“Bridge to Forever.” Beirut: Arab Research Foundation, 1982.


studies:
“In Zionist Literature.” Beirut: Palestine Liberation Organization - Research Center, 1967.
“Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation 1948-1966.” Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1968.
“The 1936-1939 Revolution: Backgrounds, details, and analysis.” “Palestinian Affairs,” No. 6, January 1972, pp. 45-77.

Ghassan Kanafani was martyred with his niece, Lamis, on the morning of 7/8/1972, when an explosive device planted by Israeli occupation intelligence exploded in his car in Beirut.