8 July, Online Webinar: Ghassan Kanafani: Literature and Revolution

GHASSAN KANAFANI: LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION
Friday, July 8
8 am Pacific – 11 am Eastern – 4 pm British time – 5 pm central Europe/South Africa – 6 pm Palestine
REGISTER ONLINE https://bit.ly/kanafanibook

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani, we celebrate the first-time English publication of “On Zionist Literature,” Kanafani’s analysis of literary justifications for Zionist colonialism. (Get your copy here, on preorder until July 8: https://www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/on-zionist-literature) We will discuss Kanafani’s legacy of revolutionary writing and struggle and his continuing life to inspire new political and literary interventions today.

Speakers:

Louis Allday, Historian, writer and editor of the Liberated Texts series, publisher of On Zionist Literature in collaboration with Ebb Books

Omar Zahzah, Palestinian Youth Movement, Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Committee (Order the anthology here: https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/ghassan-kanafani-anthology-v5/z1wjsdy31v3bkkacc0kq8v7rk3aisz)

Read the call from Samidoun and PYM for activities marking the 50th anniversary of Kanafani’s assassination: https://samidoun.net/2022/05/july-8-2022-ghassan-lives-palestine-lives-call-to-organize-for-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-assassination-of-ghassan-kanafani/