The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine: Background, Details, and Analysis by Ghassan Kanafani & translated by Hazam Jamjoum

A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices.

Revisit Ghassan Kanafani's pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents a concrete analysis of the mass uprisings against Zionism, and for independence from British colonialism, taking place in Palestine from 1936 to 1939. With a methodical yet illustrative approach, Kanafani examines the economic, political, social, and cultural conditions that contributed to, and limited, the anti-colonial struggle in this period.

About the Author

GHASSAN KANAFANI (1936-1972) was a Palestinian novelist, journalist, and political activist, born in Acre. Forced to flee during the Nakba, he lived and worked in Damascus, Kuwait, and finally Beirut, where his experience of exile deeply shaped his literature. His novels, including Men in the Sun and Returning to Haifa, documented the horrors of war and occupation, and he is widely credited with pioneering the concept of Palestinian "resistance literature." He was assassinated in Beirut in 1972 by a car bomb planted by israeli Mossad, at the age of 36.

About the Translator

HAZEM JAMJOUM is a candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy in History and Middle Eastern Studies degree at New York University. His first literary translation of Maya Abu al-Hayyat's La Ahad Ya'rif Zumrat Damih received PEN America's nomination to the New York State Council for the Arts.