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Ghassan Kanafani

Died in 1972

Ghassan Kanafani was born in 1936 in Acre and was studying in Jaffa when his family had to leave in 1948 for Lebanon, then Damascus. He began working there at a very young age, taught drawing in the schools of the United Nations refugee agency, then went to Kuwait in 1956. In Beirut, he worked for several newspapers and in 1969 became spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and editor of its magazine. His books are translated into more than seventeen languages. He died in Beirut in 1972.

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