| Translated by May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed | After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria |
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| In Beirut, published the novel Men in the Sun 1962 | There, he began writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens |
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine then under the British mandate in 1936.
11| Palestinian Personalities: a Biographic Dictionary | Arles : Actes Sud, 2005 |
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| Arles : Actes Sud, 1997 | During the 19 Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa.
25| During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees | In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation |
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| Des hommes dans le soleil | Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon |
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine then under the British mandate in 1936.
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