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Louis Allday’s introduction to the newly reissued biography of Ghassan Kanafani outlines the choice Kanafani made between being an organic participant in the resistance and his life as a writer. Kanafani chose, and in doing so, chose his fate. Source
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Ghassan Kanafani and the inexhaustible dialectic
July 10th, 2022 
Awake Goy July 8, 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani, a towering figure in Palestinian cultural and political life. Haidar Eid writes that Kanfani’s fiction remains essential because it is characterized by a realism that moves us towards a new perception and understanding of art, revolution, and, of course, Palestine. Source
The Silencing of Ghassan Kanafani – Israel’s Addiction to the Quick Fix of Assassination
June 3rd, 2022 Awake Goy In the film archive of The Associated Press there are 2.47 minutes of shaky footage dated 10th July 1972. The colour of the stock is crude, the quality grainy. The clip is disorientating, the camera continually moving as if searching for meaning. It’s an eerily silent piece of newsreel. With the absence of a long […]
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No Comments »Imagining Palestine: On Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the Language of Exile
February 28th, 2021 Awake Goy February 24, 2021 An archive photo of Mourid Barghouti with his late wife Radwa Ashour. (Via: Mourid Barghouti’s Twitter account) By Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international law, either. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: barghouti, Darwish, exile, imagining, kanafani, language, Palestine No Comments »Imagining Palestine: Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the language of exile
February 26th, 2021 Awake Goy For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international law, either. Nor is it an ethereal notion, a sentiment, a poetic verse. It is all of this, combined. Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti died […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: barghouti, Darwish, exile, imagining, kanafani, language, Palestine No Comments »Palestinian youth launch Ghassan Kanafani scholarship, call for submissions
June 6th, 2018 Awake Goy The revolutionary Palestinian writer and political leader Ghassan Kanafani once famously remarked, “My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.” Kanafani’s […]
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