Claim: In the novel Men in the Sun, three men travel across the desert to Kuwait.
Evidence: Men in the Sun (Arabic: رجال في الشمس Rijāl fī ash-Shams) is a novel by Palestinian writer and political activist Ghassan Kanafani (1936–72), originally published in 1962. Men in the Sun follows three Palestinian refugees seeking to travel from the refugee camps in Iraq, where they cannot find work, to Kuwait where they hope to find work as laborers in the oil boom. The three men each arrange with a clerk at a local store to be smuggled to Kuwait by a driver. Once they finally arrange for travel, they are forced to ride in the back of the truck across the desert on their way to Kuwait.