Hazem Jamjoum on Writing for Communities of Struggle
This conversation took place in early July. In it, Hazem Jamjoum discusses his plans and visions for the newly launched publishing house, Safarjal.
Ghassan Kanafani
We Knocked Until Our Hands Broke
Gaza-based Palestinian author Alaa Alqaisi asks herself the question posed more than half a century ago at the end of Ghassan Kanafani’s “Men in the Sun”: Why didn’t they knock on the walls of the tank?
Short Fiction in Translation: Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘The Crucified Sheep’
Introduction by Rachel Green This story, written in Kuwait in 1960 and published in Kanafani’s first collection, Death of Bed 12 (1961), provides a glimpse into some of the concerns […]
Kanafani and Shibli: Different Stagings of Palestine, Different Stagings of Death
In an essay that originally appeared in Turkish, novelist Süreyyya Evren explores the deaths in works by Ghassan Kanafani and Adania Shibli.
5 Books: Palestinian Short-story Collections
In addition to Out of Time: The Collected Short Stories of Samira Azzam, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman, we also recommend these five collections.
Coming in July: Books by Joumana Haddad, Jabbour Douaihy & Ghassan Kanafani
Coming in July, books from Lebanon and Palestine.
Tomorrow: Futures of Resistance
Tomorrow: Futures of Resistance is a virtual panel on Arab and Palestinian Futurism, organized by the PYM, and co-sponsored by RAWI and Palestine Writes.
Upcoming Events: Ghassan Kanafani Scholarship Anthology, Rabih Alameddine & more
A few upcoming online events.
Remembering Ghassan Kanafani: To Read, Watch, Listen
“Celebrated novelist and short-story writer Ghassan Kanafani was born on this day in 1936. Almost fifty years have passed since his assassination at the age of just 36.”
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