Not my favourite Arabic text | |
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After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria | Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine then under the British mandate in 1936 |
In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation.
28But then again, each one is a mystery! His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa | Each on its own is a regular story, not the best of his works if you ask me |
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His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa | Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine then under the British mandate in 1936 |
Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon.
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