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His wife has lost patience with his dreams of the past and urged him to go off to Kuwait and make some money:

Ball, Anna (2012-11-27). Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-09866-0. The story dramatises a world infinitely remote from a comfortable middle class first world urban existence. Its continuing interest resides not simply in its mediation of a particular historical moment – the setting seems to be Iraq in 1958 or 1959 – or in its poetic realism, sensuously evoking a sweltering desert landscape, but in its narrative power as the expression of dispossession and abortive dreams and, more concretely, as a highly charged metaphor for Palestinian identity in the late 1950s. Zalman, Amy (2006-02-15), "Gender and the Palestinian Narrative of Return in Two Novels by Ghassan Kanafani*", Literature and Nation in the Middle East, Edinburgh University Press, pp.48–75, ISBN 978-0-7486-2073-9 , retrieved 2021-08-13 Abdallah is the name that Jadaan calls all of the civil engineers but specifically the narrator. He is from a different class from the guards. Abdallah hears Mubarak's story about Jadaan and the red-haired woman. He then ignores Mubarak's request to file a complaint against Jadaan. Abdallah approaches Jadaad about gazelle hunting and hears the story of Nar. Jadaanappears in The Falcon None of the four wanted to talk anymore, not only because they were exhausted by their efforts but because each one was swallowed up in his own thoughts. The huge lorry was carrying them along the road, together with their dreams, their families, their hopes and ambitions, their misery and despair, their strength and weakness, their past and fuiture, as if it were pushing against the immense door to a new, unknown destiny, and all eyes were fixed on the door’s surface as though bound to it by invisible threads.Abul Khaizuran: The lorry driver who agrees to smuggle the three men. He tells fantastic tales of his agile driving and strong repute, but the memory that continually haunts him and remains unrevealed to any other characters is his surgical castration ten years before as a freedom fighter. He is disillusioned by the national cause and "wishes only for money". In the final chapter, he is held up by bureaucrats that tease him about a rumor involving him and a prostitute and the three men die in the tank due to this needless delay. Men in the Sun ( Arabic: رجال في الشمس, romanized: Rijāl fī al-Shams) is a novel by Palestinian writer and political activist Ghassan Kanafani (1936–72), originally published in 1962. [1] Men in the Sun follows three Palestinian refugees seeking to travel from the refugee camps in Iraq, where they cannot find work, to Kuwait where they hope to find work as laborers in the oil boom.

Nar is Jadaan's falcon. He is the best falcon in the village, and his name means "Fire." One day, Nar circles a gazelle and then perches. He refuses to eat for a week until he dies. Narratorappears in Letter from Gaza Men in the Sun was originally published in 1962. In the novella, the Palestinians die in silence. [8] What Kanafani does in this story is dramatise the hopelessness and passivity of the mass of Palestinians in the late nineteen fifties. Ten years after being driven from their homes, their land and their country by armed Zionists, Palestinians are reduced to a miserable and impoverished existence in the refugee camps. There they long for their lost world and dream of material improvements. Their family units collapse. Marriages turn sour. Young men go off in search of a better life. But ultimately these are a people on the rubbish dump of history. Men in the Sun has been filmed as al-Makhdu'un ( The Deceived or The Dupes), by Egyptian director Tawfiq Saleh. [7]

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Marwan is an idealist, who finds himself staying in ‘a miserable hotel at the end of the world’. He wants to become a doctor and to repair the damage caused by his father’s abandonment of his family: Marwan asks if there’s any water in the tanker. Abul Khaizuran laughs: ‘What are you thinking of? Am I a swimming teacher? Listen, my boy, the tank hasn’t seen any water for six months.’ Assad quietly points out that Khaizuran has just told them he was carrying water for a hunting expedition. In short, Khaizuran is a liar. The truth is he’s working for a smuggler, doing a little business of his own on the side.

This collection of important stories by novelist, journalist, teacher, and Palestinian activist Ghassan Kanafani includes the stunning novella Men in the Sun (1962), the basis of the The Deceived. Also in the volume are and “The Land of Sad Oranges and ” (1958), and “‘If You Were a Horse…’ and ” (1961), and “A Hand in the Grave and ” (1962), and “The Falcon and ” (1961), and “Letter from Gaza and ” (1956), and an excerpt from Umm Saad (1969). In the unsparing clarity of his writing, Kanafani offers the reader a gritty look at the agonized world of Palestine and the adjoining Middle East.Born in Acre (northern Palestine) in 1936, Ghassan Kanafani was a major spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and founding editor of its weekly magazin Al-Hadaf. His novels, short stories, and plays have been published in sixteen languages. He was killed in a car-bomb explosion in Beirut in 1972. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani – eBook Details He would send every penny he earned to his mother, and overwhelm her and his brothers and sisters with gifts till he made the mud hut into a paradise on earth and his father bite his nails with regret.’ Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon. Mustafa is the recipient of the letter. He grew up in the Shajiya quarter of Gaza with the narrator, and the pair promised to follow the same path. While Mustafa worked for the Ministry of Education in Kuwait, he gave the narrator money to help support his family. Mustafa moves to Sacramento and waits for his friend to join him. Nadiaappears in Letter from Gaza

Nabil's father looks to release his rage every morning. He is proud that Nabil is a medical student, but he becomes angry when Nabil tells him of his plan to rob a grave. After hearing about the misadventure, he praises God and states that Nabil and Suhail received their due reward from the grave and the dead man. He believes the grave is that of a saint and visits it everyday to pray. Narratorappears in Umm Saad Abu Ibrahim is the father of the story. He wishes his son were a horse so that he could put a bullet through his brain. He loves his son but fears him. Abu Ibrahim used to be a great expert on horses and kept a notebook on pedigrees and prices. After Barq kills his wife, he moves to the city and blames himself for not adhering to superstition and killing Barq. When he suffers from acute appendicitis, he will not allow his son to operate. After undergoing anesthesia, Abu Ibrahim rambles to the surgeon about Barq and his wife. Barqappears in If You Were a Horse Radio artist Joe Frank mentions Men in the Sun in his show 'Another country, part 1', the version in which they die in silence. Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine (then under the British mandate) in 1936. His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa. During the 19 Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon.

Performances of masculinity are central to the plot of Men in the Sun. The older male characters especially exemplify this performance as they belong to the generation that "lost Palestine''. Abu Qais is emasculated by his loss of land and the poverty he and his family endure in a refugee camp. His inability to provide for his family threatens his position as the man of the "household" and drives him to find work in Kuwait despite the risk. This shame captures the breakdown of gender structures in exile. Abul Khaizuran also performs gender as he cannot deny the rumors of his sexual escapade and reveal his impotence. In response to Abu Baqir's demands to hear the story of his encounter with a prostitute, he deflects "if Hajj told you already, why do you want me to tell it again", [4] implicitly confirming the tale. Here, Abul Khaizuran is pulled into a game of performing masculinity while the three men in his tank suffocate. Shafiqa invites the mother to come and live with them but she refuses. Marwan recalls visiting his father and his new wife: Lccn 78072967 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL17907522M Openlibrary_edition Kanafani, Ghassan (1999). Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories. p.13. Those who have seen the filmed version of the novella, The Deceived (1972) will realize that the plot has been altered, so the three Palestinians who in the book die in silence are shown in the film beating on the walls of their hiding place as they suffocate, to attract the attention of those outside. A film similar to the novella in its denouement would have appeared glaringly incongruous at a time when the resistance movements were established. The narrator writes a letter to his friend Mustafa, canceling his plans to join Mustafa in Sacramento, California. The narrator and Mustafa grew up together in the Shajiya quarter of Gaza and promised to follow the same path. The narrator takes care of his mother, his brother's widow and her four children. After Mustafa moves to Sacramento, the narrator receives a contract with the Ministry of Education in Kuwait. When Gaza is bombed, the narrator plans to expedite his journey to Sacramento, but first he visits his family. At his sister-in-law's request, he visits Nadia in the hospital and learns of her amputation. The narrator decides against moving to Sacramento and begs Mustafa to come home and learn what life is about. Mustafaappears in Letter from Gazaurn:lcp:meninsun00ghas:epub:ce9b3129-502e-4766-85a0-8fa43eabe8f8 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier meninsun00ghas Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7dr6f719 Invoice 1213 Isbn 089410392X The dialogue, gently comic, is ominous: ‘Ha! The climate will be like the next world inside there.’ What is missing is politics. What is missing is resistance to Zionism. The characters all accept their fate. And historically the story seems accurately to catch the mood of the time. Israel’s smashing of Egypt in the 1956 Sinai war displayed once again the overwhelming military superiority of Zionism and the folly of hoping that any Arab state would liberate Palestine from its Zionist occupiers. And among the Palestinians themselves there was no coherent organisation or opposition to Israel. The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was not founded until 1964.

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