Returning to Haifa is a novella by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani that confronts the human consequences of displacement through the story of a couple returning to their former home for the first time since 1948. Said S. and his wife Safiyya drive from Ramallah to Haifa after the 1967 war opens passage between the territories, seeking the house and the infant son they were forced to abandon during the chaos of the Nakba. What they find transforms their understanding of home, identity, and loss. The son they left behind was raised by a Jewish family and now serves in the Israeli military, unaware of his origins until this moment of confrontation. Kanafani, himself a refugee from Acre who became one of the most important Palestinian writers and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, uses the intimate family drama to explore larger questions of belonging and dispossession. Written in 1969 and published shortly before Kanafani's assassination by car bomb in 1972, the novella remains a landmark of Palestinian literature, crystallizing the trauma of exile in a spare, powerful narrative.