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About Pen Power Day
Books , Career
Civil Rights , Middle East/West Asia
Ends: Jul 08, 2021
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Pen Power or Power of the Pen Day, honors those throughout history whom have chosen to wield a pen, camera, paintbrush or music, rather than a sword in the fight for human rights, equality and causes they believe in. The date marks the assassination anniversary of one the Arab world's most respected writers and journalists of the mid-twentieth century: Ghassan Kanafani
Kanafani was born in British Mandate Palestine in 1936. At the age of twelve he witness the creation of the state of Israel. His family fled the fighting to Lebanon, ultimately settling in Syria as refugees.
In his teen years he began working with the liberation movement, advocating for human rights under the new Israeli government. The organization was known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. It would later become infamous for plane hijackings. Kanafani was not part of that wing.
A prolific writer, he told the story of the Palestinian experience as a journalist, as the editor of Jordan's newspaper Al Ra'i and later as the editor of Lebanon's Al-Hurriya.
Like many journalists, he was also a novelist. His 1962 novel "Men in the Sun" continues to be one of the most popular and quoted works of modern Arab literature. In 1966, a year before the 6-Day War, he published a novel on life in a Gaza refugee camp entitled "All That's Left for You". Additional titles include "Umm Sa'ad" (1969) and "Return to Haifa" (1970).
Kanafani believed ideas and stories to be more powerful than any other form of resistance. He became one of the most respected political thinkers of the Palestinian diaspora and in the Arab world. He tirelessly advocated for Palestinian rights, fighting only with the pen, never arms.
On July 8, 1972, he and his seventeen year old niece got into his car outside his home. As he turned the ignition, the car erupted into a fireball. They were killed instantly. He was thirty-six.
Years later, Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, admitted they planted the bomb.
History is replete with people whom have risked their lives to report, draw, photograph and write hard truths and injustices. They are novelists, journalists, photographers, filmmakers, cartoonists, musicians and artists. They use their talent to communicate ideas and truths. They use their talent to fight for what they believe in. Even today, in the Philippines, Egypt, China, Russia, Turkey and in other nations, writers, reporters and activists are jailed, assassinated and attacked for refusing to remain quiet. Each of these brave men and women chooses the pen, camera, paintbrush or instrument as their weapon, as their cause. Power of the Pen Day is dedicated to them.
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