| Austin: University of Texas, 1990 | Contemporary Arab Writers: Biographies and Autobiographies |
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| 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 | Arles : Actes Sud, 2005 |
After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria.
25| His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa | Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000 |
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| He published extensively on literature and politics, focusing on the the Palestinian liberation movement and the refugee experience, as well as engaging in scholarly literary criticism, publishing several books about post-1948 Palestinian and Israeli literature | 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 | During the 19 Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
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| There, he began writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens | Arles : Actes Sud, 1997 |