Ghassan Kanafani was born in Acre in 1936 and lived in Jaffa and forced to flee by the thousands of Palestinians have been displaced after the catastrophe of 1948, under the pressure of the Zionist oppression where he lived with his family for a short period in southern Lebanon and then the family moved to Damascus. Work Ghassan since his early youth in the national struggle and began his career as a teacher of art education in the schools and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Damascus and then moved to Kuwait in 1956, where he worked as a teacher of drawing and sport in schools and government was in the meantime working in the press as literary production began in the same period. Moved to Beirut in 1960 where he worked as an editor morally the newspaper (Freedom) and (weekly) and then became in 1963 chief editor of the newspaper (editor) also worked in the (Alanura) and (accidents) until the year 1969, when the foundations of the newspaper (target) weekly and remained president for editing until his death in July 1972. Kanafani represents a special model for Katebalssayas, Aaroaúa and the critic and novelist was creative in his writings also was creative in his life, struggle and martyrdom. Ghassan Kanafani won the 1966 award (book friends in Lebanon) for best novel for his novel (what is left to you) also won the World journalists Organization Award in 1974 and won the award (lotus) granted by the Union of Writers of Asia and Africa in 1975.
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