Launching Kanafani's Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation

The evening will feature Rashid Khalidi in conversation with Amahl Bishara and Kaleem Hawa, to launch the first English translation of Ghassan Kanafani's Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation 1948-68.

Ghassan Kanafani’s remarkable extended essay Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948–1968 is an unyielding act of cultural and political endurance. Writing in the wake of Israel’s devastating territorial expansion in 1967, Kanafani elaborates his theory of resistance literature and offers a visceral account of life under occupation.

Translated for the first time into English by one of the greatest living translators from Arabic to English, Tarif Khalidi, Kanafani’s essay offers one of the sharpest social and political analyses of life in Palestine in this early period of occupation. In the two decades following the Nakba, Palestinian writers undertook the grueling task of advancing a cultural struggle to protect their language, culture, and heritage.

Join us for a conversation about this newly translated text and its relevance to the continued struggle for Palestinian liberation.This event is co-hosted by the Institute for Palestine Studies, the Freedom School, and First Parish Cambridge.