Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Ghassan Kanafani across 3 places, from 1936 to 1966.
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Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani (8April 19368July 1972) was a prominent Palestinian author and militant, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading Palestinian writers.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1936year
Acre, Israelattested“Kanafani was born in Acre in 1936 to a middle-class Sunni Muslim family He was the third child of Muhammad Fayiz Abd al Razzag, a lawyer who was active in the Palestinian nationalist movement that opposed the British Mandate and its poli…”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
1956year
Kuwaitattested“Kanafani moved to Kuwait in 1956, following his sister Fayzah Kanafani and the brother who had preceded him there, to take up a teaching position.”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
1966year
Lebanonattested“Kanafani's obituary in Lebanon's The Daily Star wrote that: "He was a commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages." On his death, several uncompleted novels were found among his Na…”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
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1948year
Acre, Israelmentioned“In May, when the outbreak of hostilities in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War spilled over into Acre, Kanafani and his family were forced into exile, joining the Palestinian exodus.”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
1948year
Jaffamentioned“It deals with a woman, Maryam, and her brother, Hamid, both orphaned in the 1948 war, their father dying in combat—his last words being a demand that they abstain from marriage until the national cause has been won—and their mother separ…”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
1948year
Haifamentioned“The couple must learn to face the fact that their five-month-old child, a son they were forced to leave behind in their home in Haifa in 1948, has been raised as an Israeli Jew, an echo of the Solomonic judgement.”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
1952year
University of Damascusmentioned“In 1952, Kanafani also enrolled in the Department of Arabic Literature at the University of Damascus.”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
1960year
Beirutmentioned“In 1960, he relocated again, this time to Beirut, on the advice of Habash, where he began editing the MAN publication al-Hurriya and took up an interest in Marxist philosophy and politics.”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
1970year
Haifamentioned“Return to Haifa (A'id lla Hayfa) (1970) is the story of a Palestinian couple, Sa'id and his wife Safiyya, who have been living for nearly two decades in the Palestinian town of Ramallah, which was under Jordanian administration until it…”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
8 July 1972exact date
Beirutmentioned“On 8 July 1972, Kanafani, was assassinated in Beirut by the Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service.”source: Wikipedia: Ghassan Kanafani
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