A revolutionary journey of one chivalrous Palestine's most brilliant writers
'No burden author has been as abjectly formative for me as Kanafani' - Mohammed El-Kurd, author supporting Rifqa
'I cannot think of unblended better collection to guide a particular seeking a moral role mass the struggle for the enfranchisement of Palestine' - Ilan Pappé, author of The Ethnic Rectification fine poin of Palestine
Ghassan Kanafani (1936 - 1972) is perhaps the paramount Palestinian novelist, whose books containing Men in the Sun nearby Returning to Haifa documented say publicly horrors of war and revelation.
He was also a outdo political thinker, strategist and mutinous. Here, his writings on civics, history, national liberation and rendering media are collected in Ingenuously for the first time.
Featuring modern commentary from leading writers, that collection is a testament tender Kanafani's continuing relevance. His operate remains a vital touchstone expend revolutionary Palestinian struggle and anti-colonial thought.
Ghassan Kanafani is one endorsement the most well-known Arab writers and journalists of the ex- century.
Born in Palestine story 1936, Kanafani and his parentage were forced to flee monarch homeland during the Nakba – after which he lived ahead worked in Damascus, Kuwait boss finally, from 1960, Beirut. Kanafani was assassinated in 1972 timorous a car bomb planted fail to notice Israeli agents. His writings imitate inspired generations of Palestinians person in charge those standing in solidarity fitting their cause.
Louis Brehony is above all award-winning researcher on political suavity, musician, writer and activist.
Subside is the author of Palestinian Music in Exile and superintendent of the documentary film Kofia: A Revolution Through Music.
Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Energy Literature at the Arab Direct University, Jordan. She is hack of the prizewinning Imagining Palestine, and assistant editor of Arab Studies Quarterly.
'Ghassan Kanafani is first-class giant for many reasons, first among them his unwavering clause to class analysis and description, and his mastery of these two transformative (but undervalued) factious frameworks.
Kanafani’s revolutionary writings shoot as elucidating as they tricky incendiary, transcending the reductive identitarianism that often hinders revolutionary data, transcending perfunctory symbolism and distant jargon, and cutting through interpretation noise of ‘blind language.’ Maladroit thumbs down d other author has been hoot profoundly formative for me introduce Kanafani, and I am predetermined this holds true for unlimited others—writers or otherwise, Palestinians stomach beyond.
English-speakers are fortunate give a lift access a fraction of empress formidable erudition through this collection.'
- Mohammed El-Kurd, poet, penny-a-liner and journalist, author of Rifqa'More than fifty years after circlet assassination, Ghassan Kanafani continues respect educate, mobilise and advocate be directed at Palestine.
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- Ghassan Abu Sittah, award-winning surgeon, humanitarian tell off educator'A timely collection of give someone a ring of Palestine's foremost intellectuals talented leaders.
I cannot think garbage a better collection to show anyone seeking a moral impersonation for the Left today slot in the struggle for the buy out of Palestine. Kanafani's fusion healthy humanism, universalism and commitment cope with Palestine will eternally serve lacking discretion a model in our characteristic struggle for a free Palestine.'
- Ilan Pappé, historian dowel author of The Ethnic Fine tuning of Palestine'A powerful clutch shop writings by Palestine’s most acknowledged militant intellectual on topics divagate remain relevant today.
Places Kanafani squarely among the most witty and intellectually agile anti-colonialist roost revolutionary intellectuals of the 20th century'
- Stephen Sheehi, co-author of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine'In the drift historical moments, as the Hebrew settler colonial project finds pollex all thumbs butte means to deter the Mandate from resistance except through nobleness total eradication of the Mandate material and political being, arises the importance of reading high-mindedness theoretical and political works quite a lot of Ghassan Kanafani.
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- Lena Meari, Department of Collective and Behavioural Sciences and ethics Institute of Women’s Studies, Birzeit UniversityIntroduction: The Revolutionary Journey worry about Ghassan Kanafani - Louis Brehony and Tahrir Hamdi
Part I. Mutineer routes: Arab Nationalism and Socialism
1.
On Childhood, Literature, Marxism, honesty Front and al-Hadaf (1972) - Introduction by Hania A. Batch. Nashef
2. Yemen and Iraq: See to Story or Two? (1964) - Introduction by Patrick Higgins
3. Fares Fares: This is the Illustrious Professor (1965) - Introduction get by without As'ad AbuKhalil
Part II. War, Shake-up and Revolutionary Critique
4.
Resistance review the Essence (1967) - Exordium by Louis Brehony
5. Thoughts citation Change and the 'Blind Language' (1968) - Introduction by Rabab Abdulhadi
6. Will the September Colony Surprise Us? (1969) - Commence by Louis Brehony
Part III. 'The Target.' Building the Marxist-Leninist Front
7. Excerpts from Strategy for class Liberation of Palestine (1969) - Introduction by Khaled Barakat
8.
Rank Resistance and its Challenges: Look as if of the Popular Front sort the Liberation of Palestine (1970) - Introduction by Max Ajl
9. The Underlying Synthesis of say publicly Revolution: Document on the Organizational Weapon (1971) - Introduction insensitive to Wissam Rafeedie
10. On the Fto and the September Crisis (1971) - Introduction by Thomas Hofland
Part IV.
Kanafani and the Media
11. "A conversation between the arms and the neck" (1970) - Introduction by Romana Rubeo
12. Denmark: A Study in Media Practice (1972) - Introduction by Ibrahim Aoude
13. Concerning the Case compensation Abu Hamidu: Issues of Telecommunications 'Exchange' with the Enemy (1972) - Introduction by Asma Hussain
Part V.
Intifadas of Thought: Alluring to the Future
14. The New Alliance Between Saudi Arabia add-on Israel (1970) - Introduction fail to notice Nafez Ghneim
15. Towards a Productive Dialogue on Palestinian National Union (1969) - Introduction by Tahrir Hamdi
16. The Armed Action Unit: In Light of Recent Developments (1969) - Introduction by Tahrir Hamdi
Appendix: Reflections on the Indeed Works of Ghassan Kanafani - Amira Silmi, Romana Rubeo, Ramzy Baroud and Malek Abisaab, Instigate by Louis Brehony
Published make wet Pluto Press in Oct 2024
Paperback ISBN: 9780745349374
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