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The Sad Orange Land
The Land of Sad Oranges () is the second collection of stories written by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. Originally published in 1962, the stories follow the perspective of a Palestinian as they and their family are dispossessed in the wake of the 1948 Palestine war. The collection includes: * Paper from Ramla * Paper from Ghaza * Forbidden Weapons * The Horizon Behind the Gate Writer Ghassan Kanafani (born in Acre on 8 April 1936 and died in Beirut on 8 July 1972) was a famous Palestinian novelist, narrator and journalist of the twentieth century. As a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's political bureau, he focused on Palestinian emancipation. He and his family were forced to evacuate in 1948, and he spent time in Syria before settling in Lebanon, where he obtained Lebanese citizenship. In 1952, he graduated from high school in Damascus with a Syrian baccalaureate. In the same year, he enrolled in the college of Arab Literature at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Kanafani ( ar, غسان كنفاني, 8 April 1936 – 8 July 1972) was a Palestinian author and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). On 8 July 1972, he was assassinated by Mossad as a response to the Lod airport massacre.. Early life Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in 1936 into a middle-class Palestinian Sunni family with a Kurdish background in the city of Acre (Akka) under the British Mandate for Palestine. He was the third child of Muhammad Fayiz Abd al Razzag, a lawyer who was active in the national movement that opposed the British occupation and its encouragement of Jewish immigration, and who had been imprisoned on several occasions by the British when Ghassan was still a child.. Ghassan received his early education in a French Catholic missionary school in Jaffa. In May, when the outbreak of hostilities in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War spilled over into Acre, Kanafan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Anwar (Lebanese Newspaper)
''Al Anwar'' ( ar, الانوار, lit=The Lights) was an Arabic daily newspaper published in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded in 1959 and was one of the leading dailies in Lebanon. In October 2018, the publisher Dar Assayad announced ceasing of the print edition of the publication after 58 years of continuous publishing. The company also ceased the publication of its line of long-running periodicals, including weekly news magazine ''Assayad'', weekly arts and entertainment magazine ''Achabaka'', monthly women's magazine ''Fayrouz'', monthly men's magazine ''Al Fares'' and monthly military magazine ''Al Difa' Al Arabi''. History and profile ''Al Anwar'' was launched by the publishing house Dar Assayad in 1959. The company also owned several daily, weekly and monthly publications, including ''Assayad'' magazine. The founder of the daily was Said Freiha who was an advocate of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The headquarters of the paper was in Beirut. On 20 October 1962 ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassam Abu Sharif
Bassam Abu Sharif ( ar, بسام أبو شريف; born 1946 in Jerusalem) is a former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat and leading cadre of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was previously a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). A Marxist and an admirer of Mao Zedong and Che Guevara, Abu Sharif, then a member of the PFLP, was dubbed the "face of terror" by ''Time'' magazine for his role in the Dawson's Field hijackings in 1970, when the PFLP hijacked Pan Am, Swissair, and TWA flights and blew them up in the Jordanian desert, triggering King Hussein's expulsion of the PLO from Jordan, which became known as Black September. A fourth pair of hijackers on an El Al flight were overpowered by security guards and passengers. Early life and education Abu Sharif was born in the Old City of Jerusalem on 9 August 1946. His parents were upper-middle-class Sunni Muslims and had been residing in Jordan since 1943 due to the fact that his father was w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamziyeh
Hamziyeh ( ar, الحمزية) is a Syrian village located in Salqin Nahiyah in Harem District Harem District ( ar-at, منطقة حارم, manṭiqat Ḥārim) is a district of the Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Harem Harem ( Persian: حرمسرا ''haramsarā'', ar, حَرِي ..., Idlib. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hamziyeh had a population of 953 in the 2004 census. References Populated places in Harem District {{IdlibSY-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detonation
Detonation () is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it. Detonations propagate supersonically through shock waves with speeds in the range of 1 km/sec and differ from deflagrations which have subsonic flame speeds in the range of 1 m/sec. Detonations occur in both conventional solid and liquid explosives, as well as in reactive gases. The velocity of detonation in solid and liquid explosives is much higher than that in gaseous ones, which allows the wave system to be observed with greater detail (higher resolution). A very wide variety of fuels may occur as gases (e.g. hydrogen), droplet fogs, or dust suspensions. In addition to dioxygen, oxidants can include halogen compounds, ozone, hydrogen peroxide and oxides of nitrogen. Gaseous detonations are often associated with a mixture of fuel and oxidant in a composition somewhat below conventional flammabil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mossad
Mossad ( , ), ; ar, الموساد, al-Mōsād, ; , short for ( he, המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, links=no), meaning 'Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations'. is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security). Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection, covert operations, and counter-terrorism. Its director answers directly and only to the Prime Minister. Its annual budget is estimated to be around 10 billion shekels (US$2.73 billion) and it is estimated that it employs around 7,000 people directly, making it the one of the world's largest espionage agencies. Unlike other security bodies (such as the Israel Defense Forces or the Israel Security Agency), its purpose, objectives, roles, missions, powers or budget have not been defined in any law. History Mossad was formed on December 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Hadaf
''Al-Hadaf'' ('' ar, الهدف''), ('' en, The Target'') is a Palestinian weekly political and cultural magazine published in Lebanon. History and profile ''Al Hadaf'' was founded in Beirut in 1969 by Ghassan Kanafani as the political mouthpiece of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), espousing a Marxist–Leninist version of pan-Arab Palestinian nationalism. Kanafani also served as the editor-in-chief of the weekly. Deputy editor was Bassam Abu Sharif. In 1972, Kanafani was killed by a car bomb, but ''Al Hadaf'' remains in publication. The magazine is based in Beirut. See also * List of magazines in Lebanon In Lebanon the first Arabic journal was an annual review, ''Majmu fawaid li nukhbat afadil'' which was first published in 1851. The first political, literary, and scientific magazine, the first children's magazine, and the women's magazine in the ... References External links''Al-Hadaf'' homepage {{DEFAULTSORT:Hadaf, Al 1969 establishments in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assayad
''Assayad'' (Arabic: ''Hunter'') was a weekly news magazine published in Lebanon between 1943 and 2018. It was the first pan-Arab magazine in the country. Its headquarters was in Beirut. History and profile ''Assayad'' was launched by Dar Assayad publishing house led by Said Freiha on 22 November 1943. Freiha was an advocate of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian president. The publishing house also owned other publications including daily ''Al Anwar''. The magazine was based in Beirut and had offices in various cities including Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Cairo, Damascus, Amman, London, and Paris. In Fall 2018 the Dar Assayad publishing house ended its operations and closed the magazine together with other publications. Contributors Many prominent journalists worked for the magazine: Mustafa Ameen, Nizar Kabbani, Selim El Laouzi, Amin Malouf, Melhem Karam, Said Akl, Nabil Khoury, Hisham Abu Zahr, and Talal Salman. Lebanese caricaturist Pierre Sadek also work in the magazine. From 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Hurriya (newspaper)
''Al-Hurriya'' ( ar, الحرية), (freedom) variously transcribed as ''al-Hourriya'', ''al-Hurriyeh'', etc.) is a Palestinian political newspaper affiliated with the Marxist-Leninist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). First published in Beirut, Lebanon on January 4, 1960, by the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), under the editorship of Muhsin Ibrahim it became increasingly socialist, against the opposition of ANM founders and older members.Helena Cobban. ''The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power and Politics'', Cambridge University Press, p. 142. In 1969 al-Hurriya became the joint organ of the DFLP and the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon. Since 1977 it is the central organ of DFLP. ''Al-Hurriya'' is today edited in Syria, but published in several countries in the Arab world. Notes External links al-Hurriya Magazine(in Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Palestine War
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. It is known in Israel as the War of Independence ( he, מלחמת העצמאות, ''Milkhemet Ha'Atzma'ut'') and in Arabic as a central component of the Nakba (). It is the first war of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the broader Arab–Israeli conflict. During the war, the British terminated the Mandate and withdrew, ending a period of rule which began in 1917, during the First World War. Beforehand, the area had been part of the Ottoman Empire. In May 1948, the State of Israel was established by the Jewish Yishuv, its creation having been declared on the last day of the Mandate. During the war, around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were displaced.— Benny Morris, 2004''The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited'' pp. 602–604. Cambridge University Press; . "It is impossible to arrive at a definite persuasive estimate. My predilec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Habash
George Habash ( ar, جورج حبش, Jūrj Ḥabash), also known by his laqab "al-Hakim" ( ar, الحكيم, al-Ḥakīm, "the wise one" or "the doctor"; 2 August 1926 – 26 January 2008) was a Palestinian Christian politician who founded the Marxist–Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Habash served as General Secretary of the PFLP until 2000, when ill health forced him to resign. Early life Habash was born in Lydda (today's Lod) to a Greek Orthodox Christian Palestinian family in 1926. As a child, he sang in the church choir. Habash, a medical student at the American University of Beirut, was visiting his family during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. In July 1948, the Israeli Defence Force captured Lydda from Jordanian and Arab Liberation Army forces, resulting in all of the town's Arab residents leaving and the death of Habash's sister. Habash and his remaining family became refugees and were not allowed to return home. Political thinkers who we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damascus University
The University of Damascus ( ar, جَامِعَةُ دِمَشْقَ, ''Jāmi‘atu Dimashq'') is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine (established 1903) and the Institute of Law (established 1913). Until 1958, it was named the Syrian University, but the name changed after the founding of the University of Aleppo. Damascus University was one of the most reputable universities in the Arab World before the war in Syria started in 2011. The University of Damascus consists of several faculties, higher Institutes, intermediate institutes and a school of nursing. One of the institutions specializes in teaching the Arabic language to foreigners, which is the largest institution of its kind in the Arab world. History In 1901, the establishment of the Office of the School of Medicine in Damascus was approved and in 1903 this school, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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