Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani / غسان كنفاني was born in Acre (Akka), Palestine in 1936. His father was a lawyer. When the war between Arab-Israel occured in 1948, he and his family evacuated to Damascus and lived there. After finishing his study, he worked as a teacher and journalist in Syria, then moved to Kuwait. Afterward, he moved to Beirut, Lebanon and became a journalist in some print media and finally he joined in PELP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and published a magazine entitled Al-Hadaf in 1969. He was the first editor for this magazine.

Besides writing, Kanafani was also an activist in expressing the freedom of Palestine from Israel’s Colonialism. He was also a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a drama manuscript writer. During hi life, Kanafani had published eighteen books such as novel, short stories and non-fiction stories and a hundred of articles related to culture, politics, and the struggle of Palestinian people. His works has been translated more than 17 languages and pulished over 20 countries in the world. Some of them are adopted for radio drama and theatre in arab and europe. Two of his novels are filmed.

Kanafani passed away on 8^th July 1972 at the age of 36. He was assassinated together with his nephew in bomb explosion in his car by the secret department of Israel.

“Children are our future” he always says this sentence. No wonder that he wrote many stories with the children as the main characters. His works are very touched and consist of universal value of humanity. Therefore, Ghassan Kanafani’s works are still alive and even inspire modern arab literature and the world. (Translated from Palestinian's Children book)