... existence becomes infused with authenticity, valorized as a site of cultural origins, and envisioned as an antidote to the globalizing force of the military-industrial complex. This essay examines two seminal works in the canon of Arabic literature, Ghassan Kanafani's Rijal fi al-Shams ( Men in the Sun...

... of Ghassan Kanafani’s 1963 novel Men in the Sun, where sunlight exposes the tragic reality of the Palestinians, which the world refuses to see. In this sense, Suleiman is following Paul Klee’s famous dictum: “Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible.” Such exposure of Palestine...

...), Agostinho Neto (Angola), Sembène Ousmane (Senegal), Taha Hussein (Egypt), Kateb Yacine (Algeria), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya), Yusuf al-Sibai (Egypt), Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine), Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (Pakistan), Tawfiq al-Hakim (Egypt), and Nguyên Ngoc (Vietnam) (227 – 78). After...

... was that although we went to the trouble of using a lot of Japanese subtitles to imbue the work with a critical spirit, their usage wound up making the criticism vaguer. Another problem was the use, as a keyword, of the quote of the writer Ghassan Kanafani, “The best form of propaganda is armed struggle...