Ghassan Kanafani

Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian novelist born in Acre in 1936, and his 1963 novel Men in the Sun follows three refugees who set out from the camps in search of safety and a future. He also wrote Returning to Haifa, and his work has been translated into more than 17 languages. Kanafani became the spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and he was killed in Beirut in 1972.