While reading Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, I found the story very moving and wished to look further into the author Ghassan Kanafani.
Ghassan Kanafani was born in Palestine in 1936. We was a popular Palestinian writer and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is considered a major moderining force in Arab literature. Kanafani focused primarily on the short story. It appears that writing was an outlet for him to convey his political and cultural aspects. Like much of the Palestinians over the past 60 years their lives have been in limbo and often have resulted in violent actions. His polotical involment with the PFLP would lead to his assassination by Israel in retaliation for a prior terror attack. Unlike the other works and authors this blog has followed, Kanafani works and life are much more rooted in violence and speak of a struggle which violence is used as a tool.
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