| The Hat and the Prophet | |
| Author: | Ghassan Kanafani |
| Country: | Cyprus (Originally in Palestine) |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Genre: | Play |
| Publisher: | Rimal Publications |
| Pub Date: | 2013 (Originally 1973) |
| Pages: | 95 |
The Hat and the Prophet is a play written by Palestinian fiction writer and journalist, Ghassan Kanafani. Despite how Kanafani completed the play in 1967, it was only published in 1973; nine months after Kanafani's assassination.[1]
Although much of Kanafani's literature was explicitly political, this play was influenced by modernism and existentialism.[2] Hadeel Aldegheishem argues that Kanafani's play discusses existentialist philosophy, and points out the different implications of this philosophy in both the Arab and Western worlds.