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Ghassan Kanfani
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Ghassan Kanfani (1936 - 1972) غسان كنفاني

Biography

A Palestinian author and journalist, who wrote mainly about the liberation of Palestine. He was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In 1948, he and his family were forced to relocate, so he lived in Syria as a Palestinian refugee and then in Lebanon,...Read more where he obtained Lebanese citizenship. He completed his secondary studies in Damascus and obtained the Syrian baccalaureate in 1952. In the same year, he enrolled in the Faculty of Arabic Literature at Damascus University but dropped out at the end of the second year. He joined the Arab Nationalist Movement. He went to Kuwait, where he worked as a primary stage teacher, then he moved to Beirut to work in "Al-Hurriya" magazine in 1961, which was affiliated with the Movement, and he was in charge of the cultural section in it. When the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was founded in 1967, he established a magazine called "Al Hadaf" to be its official tribune, serving as its editor-in-chief, and he also became an official spokesman for the Front. He married a Danish woman and had two kids with her. He was assassinated by the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) on July 8, 1972, when he was 36 years old, by blowing up his car in the Hazmieh area near Beirut.

- Nationality:
- Palestine
- Date of Birth:
- 9 April 1936
- Died on:
- 8 July 1972

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Filmography

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- - - Aed Ela Haifa
    - 2004 - Series
    - (Story)
- - - The Survivor
    - 1995 - Movie
- - - The Knife
    - 1972 - Movie
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- - - The Dupes
    - 1972 - Movie
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- - - Men Under the Sun
    - 1970 - Movie
    - (Author)
- - - Water Seller
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A Palestinian author and journalist, who wrote mainly about the liberation of Palestine. He was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In 1948, he and his...Read more family were forced to relocate, so he lived in Syria as a Palestinian refugee and then in Lebanon, where he obtained Lebanese citizenship. He completed his secondary studies in Damascus and obtained the Syrian baccalaureate in 1952. In the same year, he enrolled in the Faculty of Arabic Literature at Damascus University but dropped out at the end of the second year. He joined the Arab Nationalist Movement. He went to Kuwait, where he worked as a primary stage teacher, then he moved to Beirut to work in "Al-Hurriya" magazine in 1961, which was affiliated with the Movement, and he was in charge of the cultural section in it. When the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was founded in 1967, he established a magazine called "Al Hadaf" to be its official tribune, serving as its editor-in-chief, and he also became an official spokesman for the Front. He married a Danish woman and had two kids with her. He was assassinated by the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) on July 8, 1972, when he was 36 years old, by blowing up his car in the Hazmieh area near Beirut.