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DOHA: Katara Cultural Village will organise an exhibition featuring the life and works of renowned Arab novelist Ghassan Kanafani during the Katara Festival of Arabic Novels to be held from October 15 to 18.
The exhibition at Gallery 1 of Building 18 will showcase 32 works introducing the life and literary journey of Kanafani, the Palestinian revolutionary novelist, from his birth in Acre on April 1936 until his assassination by Israeli intelligence agencies in Beirut on July 8, 1972.
The exhibition will shed light on his life in exile, as his family first moved to Lebanon when he was 12 years old and then to Syria, where they settled. There Kanafani obtained his secondary certificate in 1952 and enrolled in the Department of Arabic Literature in the University of Damascus. In 1955 he moved to Kuwait where his literary career flourished. He served as editor in one of the newspapers in Kuwait, writing under the name 'AbulIzz.
In 1962, his novel, Men in the Sun (Rijal fi-a-shams), considered to be one of the most admired works in modern Arabic fiction, was published to great critical acclaim. Return to Haifa (A'idllaHayfa) which came out in 1970 is the story of a Palestinian couple living in the Palestinian town of Ramallahwhich was occupied in the Six-Day war. In Umm Sa'ad (1969), Kanafani creates the portrait of a mother who encourages her son to take up arms as a resistance knowing well that it would eventually lead to his death.
The exhibition will also showcase critical studies on the novels of Kanafani and his novels that were converted to films, dramas and TV productions. In the previous editions of the Festival, Katara Festival for Arabic Novels had organised similar exhibitions featuring the life of two acclaimed Arab novelists Naguib Mahfouz and Tayeb Salih.
Alongside the exhibition, a seminar on Kanafani will be held with participation of Dr Khaled Al Huroub, Palestinian writer and academician, QassimHoul, Iraqi film producer and friend of Kanafani, Jordanian novelist Samiha Khrais and Palestinian writer and academic Dr Rami Abu Shihab.
The Festival on the second day will see two seminars on literary criticism at Hall 15 at Katara with participation of prominent writers and critics.
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