What is Ghassan Kanafani?
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ghassan Kanafani | native_name = {{lang|ar|غسان كنفاني}} | image = Ghassan Kanafani graffiti.jpg | caption = A [[graffiti]] of Ghassan Kanafani in [[State of Palestine|Palestine]] | party = [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] | birth_date = 8 April 1936 | birth_place = [[Acre, Israel|Acre]], [[Mandatory Palestine]] | death_date = 8 July 1972 (aged 36) | death_place = [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]] | nationality = [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] }} '''Ghassan Kanafani''' (9 April 1936 &ndash; 8 July 1972) was a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] [[writer]] and [[Activism|activist]]. He was a member of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP). He wrote many texts including ''Men in the Sun'' (1962). At the age of 36, he was killed in a car bomb by [[Mossad]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Nashef|first=Hania A.M.|title=Ghassan Kanafani|date=2018-10-30|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315143835-5|work=Palestinian Culture and the Nakba|pages=126–147|place=New York, NY|publisher=Routledge|doi=10.4324/9781315143835-5|isbn=9781315143835|access-date=2023-04-27|s2cid=239931121}}</ref> == Early Life == Born in the [[British Mandate of Palestine]] in the city of [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] on 9 April 1936, Kanafani and his family were forced to flee to [[Beirut]], with the outbreak of the [[Arab-Israeli War]] in 1948. Afterwards, Kanafani and his family settled in [[Damascus]]. Kanafani completed his secondary education, receiving a [[United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees]] (UNRWA) teaching certificate in 1952. In the subsequent year, he crossed paths with [[George Habash]], who initiated him into the realm of politics and left a significant impact on his early endeavors. He was later expelled from Damascus due to his political activity in support of [[Pan-Arabism]]. He then moved to [[Kuwait]] along with his sister in 1956