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Kanafani was born on April 8, 1936 in Acre, Palestine. He lived with his family in Jaffa until they were forced to leave during the Nakba ("catastrophe") of 1948 and finally settled in Damascus. After living in a refugee camp, he later began working as a teacher in a refugee camp for the UNRWA to help support his family and continue his studies. His experience in the refugee camps is reflected in much of his works.

While studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus he became interested in politics and met the then leader of the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) George Habash, with whom he began to work. After teaching several years in Kuwait, where he was diagnosed with acute diabetes, Kanafani moved to Beirut to work on al-Hurriyya ("Independence") magazine at the invitation of Habash.

In 1961 he married Danish professor Anni Hoover, who had come to Beirut to study the refugee situation and in 1962 he published his first major book, Men in the Sun *, immediately acclaimed throughout the Arab world. Both as a journalist and as a writer, Kanafani was very prolific in the 1960s when Palestinian resistance and armed struggle increased (the PLO was founded in 1965).

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was founded in 1967 to replace the Movement of Arab Nationalists and Kanafani became director of al-Hadaf, the party's organ. With a clear Marxist orientation, the PFLP pledged to resist the occupation of Palestine and establish in Palestine a single state with a new secular society based on social justice. The period between 1970 and 1972 was rich in political and armed activity, and at that time Kanafani was a member of the PFLP politburo in addition to being its spokesperson.

The PFLP considered the fight against the Israeli occupation to be anti-colonial resistance. After the defeats of 1948 and, especially, 1967, the struggle in the cultural sphere was fundamental to recover a daily Palestinian national identity that was in danger due to dispersion and ethnic and cultural cleansing. It was the first step to recover his country.

He was assassinated along with his 17-year-old niece Lamees on July 8, 1972 in Beirut by a car bomb planned by Mossad and very possibly with the collusion of the Lebanese authorities.

-- PFLP Ghassan Kanafani, Richard Carleton interview COMPLETE

-- The Dupes, 1973 Syrian Film based on the book by Kanafani "Men in the Sun"

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 16 minutes ago

My ceiling got a leak last Tuesday and there was supposed to finally be someone in to at least look at it today. It's almost 4pm and no one has shown up, haven't heard from anyone nor gotten an email back from the landlord from my asking if the contractor is still coming today. Fuck

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 2 points 17 minutes ago

Has anyone seen the 1972 film The Dupes, based on Kanafani's novella Men in the Sun?

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 1 points 10 minutes ago

Last meditations for the anxious mind vid called me out so hard catgirl-cry don't think I'll ever recover

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 3 points 40 minutes ago

Ranting a bit about my social life right now

I really hate that I absolutely cannot get anyone to go anywhere with me. I want to hang out, I want to enjoy life. Why the fuck is it so hard to live life with other people. Wanted to go a ball game with my crush, no. Its whatever, kinda talked about it a couple days ago, don't really want to rehash that here.

Asked my brother today. Hesitates when I tell him what team is playing. I'm just trying to spend time with him and I'm always up to hang out when he asks me to go somewhere with him. But every time I ask him he does the same fucking thing and its so fucking annoying. I'm just trying to be nice and return the favor since he's invited me out so much over the years. But instead he needs to throw out a bunch of qualifiers every time I do.

Most of my other friends are busy with work or their families. Understandable, but frustrating.

My mom finally offered to go when she saw how my brother reacted. I don't mind of course. But it'd be nice to hang out with people my age that I want to hang out with and instead I just get turned down left and right.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

Bombed a test today lea-sad

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Just posting from my phone is how I do it πŸ¦€, on Windows you can do win key + ;

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

If you are posting from a phone it lets you use regular emojis like so🀯

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Britney Spears is really one of a kind. We'll never get that again. Country country girl from Louisiana with a thick accent soulfully singing and dancing to pop. I love her

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Pls Trump, take control of the Fed and default on all banknotes. it will show those fentanyl money launderers!

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I've had "Trump does the #MintTheCoin MMT thing" collecting dust in my mind palace for awhile now

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What if I also feel this way about excel/saas enjoyers?

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Could set reminders on your phone? That's the only way I remember to take care of certain once a week tasks

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I put reminders in my phone, look at them, and then immediately forget that they existed lmao. ADHD sucks I have the object permanence/memory of an infant

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Mood. I just don't clear the notif if I can't do it right then for whatever reason. I can count on the ADHD to bring me back to fucking around on my phone later and see it again at least

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Friend of Mine just told me he found his new girlfriend on a dating app that's specifically for gamers.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

There's a very sweet girl in my class who is an israeli who made a whole spiel about jewish birthrates being too low and interfaith marriages too high.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

I comfort myself that she didn't make any objection when I pointed out that as far as "Dying out" goes, continuing to have kids and live normal lives isn't the worst way to go.

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I had some sort of post planned and I don't remember what it was.

In the mean time I'm just having fun listening to the conservative talk radio that my annoyed taxi driver is listening tonormal

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