Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile

Length 20:00
Licensor Claudia Cragg
Producer(s) Claudia Cragg
Formats Commentary, Interview
Topics Literature, Politics, Women
Produced February 1, 2006
Added to PRX February 2, 2006
 

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Summary:

Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile

Website:

http://www.ghadakanafani.com/bio.htm

Tones:

Emotional, Personal, Political

Language:

English

Description:

Interview with Ghada Kanafani, a Palestinian poet born in Lebanon in 1948. The hardships and trauma of displacement prevented Kanafani from writing poetry for many years. Her new book, A Life in Pencil represents that re-emergence into creativity. Kanafani spoke recently with KGNU's Claudia Cragg on her life and times and on recent events in the Palestinian authority.

She received her Masters Degree in philosophy from the Lebanese University in Beirut. She left Lebanon in 1984 and immigrated to the United States in 1985.

The book's publication is funded in part by the Boulder Arts Commission and the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.

Further information at:
http://www.ghadakanafani.com/bio.htm