# Isabella Hammad & Laleh Khalili: Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/isabella-hammad-laleh-khalili-ghassan-kanafani-s-men-in-the-sun
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/isabella-hammad-laleh-khalili-ghassan-kanafani-s-men-in-the-sun.md
Podcast: [London Review Bookshop Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718)
Published: 2026-05-16T05:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LRB4292580370.mp3?updated=1778827982
Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LRB4292580370.mp3?updated=1778827982
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/episodes/isabella-hammad-laleh-khalili-ghassan-kanafani-s-men-in-the-sun
Duration seconds: 4901

## Resource

Ghassan Kanafani, born in Acre in 1936, displaced by the Nakba in 1948 and assassinated in Beirut in 1972, was one of the leading Palestinian writers of his generation. In an event to mark a new edition of his masterpiece Men in the Sun (Verso) British-Palestinian writer Isabella Hammad (Enter Ghost) was in conversation about his work, both literary and political, with Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies at Exeter University and author, most recently, of Extractive Capitalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/episodes/isabella-hammad-laleh-khalili-ghassan-kanafani-s-men-in-the-sun/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/london-review-bookshop-podcast-169718/isabella-hammad-laleh-khalili-ghassan-kanafani-s-men-in-the-sun.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.