During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees | Des hommes dans le soleil |
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His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa |
His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa | During the 19 Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
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Arles : Actes Sud, 2005 | After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria |
There, he began writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens | Arles : Actes Sud, 1997 |
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Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon | Palestinian Personalities: a Biographic Dictionary |