Remembering Kanafani
Fatima Rhodes sent me this message: “Have you seen this, Remembering Ghassan Kanafani, or How a Nation was Born of Storytelling by Elias Khoury ? It was published around the time we read Men in the Sun together….
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The Summons
We refuse to be strangled by the wall in silence. In a famous Palestinian short story by Ghassan Kanafani, “Men in the Sun,” Palestinian workers suffocate inside a tanker truck. Upon discovering them, the driver…
Reading and Discussing Kanafani
Last week in our second meeting of Arab Writers in Translation Reading Circle, Amal, Fatima, Becca, Hala, Sharifa, and I discussed Ghassan Kanfani’s Men in the Sun, and Other Palestinian Stories. Sharifa provided this helpful…
Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun (Arab Writers in Translation Reading Circle)
Join us for our second Arab Writers in Translation discussion: On Wednesday 25 April we will discuss Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun, and Other Palestinian Stories. Ms. Sharifa Barakat will facilitate the discussion….
Nawal El Saadawi: Uncalled-for-boldness
This year I have invited people to participate in an Arab Writers in Translation Reading Circle. Last month, several friends and I met to discuss Egyptian writer Nawal El-Saadawi’s 1983 Memoirs from the Women’s Prison,…