An Ode to Ghassan Kanafani: Workshop

In this session, facilitated by Glasgow-based art worker Hussein Mitha, we will consider Ghassan Kanafani’s cultural production as well as his writings on the role of art and culture in anti-imperialist struggle; the workshop comes as a response to the earlier screening of Return To Haifa.

Ghassan Kanafani, (born 1936, martyred 1972, Beirut), was a Palestinian art-teacher, novelist, sculptor, literary critic, newspaper editor, propagandist, historian, political actor and spokesperson for the PFLP - the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. His constant study and deployment of artistic and cultural forms testifies to culture as a key battleground of the anti-colonial struggle. His study, On Zionist Literature, excavates the history of Zionism’s pioneering use of literary fiction in the development of political Zionism.

About the guests:

Hussein Mitha is an art worker living in Glasgow who calls on all arts organisations, including CCA, to join the cultural boycott of “israel”, and explicitly call for the decolonization of Palestine.