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escape the camp, Abu Al-Abd digs a trench that also enables Abu Samir to enter the camp. Abu Samir is also a refugee, albeit in a much better state than Abu Al-Abd, thanks to his position as an employee in a refugee relief agency. Despite that, Abu Samir steals flour from the donations with the help of an
American employee, delaying the donations for the rest of the people in the camp by ten days. When he runs into Abu Al-Abd outside the camp one day, he is afraid that his secret will be found out, so he offers Abu Al-Abd a deal to become a part of game in exchange for money. Abu Al-Abd is in a hard position; on the one hand, getting the money would mean he is able to buy his son a new shirt. On the other hand. it would mean the continuation of the delay that the camp residents go through every month.
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The stolen shirt and the stolen flour are both symbols that
Kanafani uses to refer to the events of the Nakba and discuss the Palestinian Cause. In addition to the political discourse that the story unravels, it also addresses the issue of moral principles and the repercussions of lack thereof. The
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The story revolves around the protagonist, Abu Al-Abd, who is a
Palestinian refugee living in a refugee camp. As was the case with most refugees, Abu Al-Abd is unable to secure a job. Him and the other residents of the camp wait every month for donations from international associations. As a way to
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time period that the story was written in, 1958, is significant to understanding the message that it is trying to get across, which is a warning to all
Palestinians against the further stealing of their land, and ways they could be used to enable the stealing.
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al-adab al-filastini al-muqawim that al-ihtilal: 1948–1968, 1968 (الأدب الفلسطيني المقاوم تحت الاحتلال 1948–1968, Palestinian
Resistance Literature under the Occupation 1948–1968)
76:'adab al-muqawamah fi filastin al-muhtalla 1948–1966, 1966 (أدب المقاومة في فلسطين المحتلة 1948–1966, Literature of Resistance in Occupied Palestine)
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al-qamis al-masruq wa-qisas ukhra, 1982 (القميص المسروق وقصص أخرى, The Stolen Shirt and Other
Stories)
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thawra 1936-39 fi filastin, 1974 (ثورة 1936-39 في فلسطين, The
Revolution of 1936–39 in Palestine)
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123:'The Slave Fort' in Arabic Short Stories, 1983 (transl. by Denys Johnson-Davies)
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al-qubba'ah wa-l-nabi, 1973 (القبعة والنبي, The Hat and the
Prophet) incomplete
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ard al-burtuqal al-hazin, 1963 (أرض البرتقال الحزين, The Land of Sad
Oranges)
185:"Analysis of the novel The Stolen Shirt: by the writer: Ghassan Kanafani"
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88:'an ar-rijal wa-l-banadiq, 1968 (عن الرجال والبنادق, On Men and Rifles)
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fi al-adab al-sahyuni, 1967 (في الأدب الصهيوني, On
Zionist Literature)
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al-a'ma wa-al-atrash, 1972 (الأعمى والأطرش, The Blind and the Deaf)
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is one of the first published stories by the Palestinian author,
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in 1958. The story won first place in a literary competition in
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ma tabaqqa lakum, 1966 (ما تبقّى لكم, All That's Left to You)
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jisr ila-al-abad, 1978 (جسر إلى الأبد, A Bridge to Eternity)
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Barquq Naysan, 1972 (برقوق نيسان, The Apricots of April)
161:"Reading Into Ghassan Kanafani's 'The Stolen Shirt'"
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126:faris faris, 1996 (فارس فارس, Knight Knight)
59:rijal fi ash-shams, 1963 (رجال في الشمس,
69:'aalam laysa lana, 1965 (عالمٌ ليس لنا,
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