A child in Palestine : the cartoons of Naji al-Ali
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1844673650
ISBN 13
9781844673650
Category
Palestine
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Publication Year
2009
Publisher
Pages
117
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Description
Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty-year career that would see his cartoons published daily in newspapers from Cairo to Beirut, London to Paris. Independent and unaligned to any political party, Naji al-Ali strove to speak to and for the ordinary Arab people. The pointed satire of his stark, symbolic cartoons brought him widespread renown. For the first time in book form, A Child in Palestine presents the work of Naji al-Ali. Through his most celebrated creation, the witness-child Handala (Hanthala), al-Ali chronicles the Israeli occupation, the corruption of the regimes in the region, and the plight of the Palestinian people.
Biblio Notes
Notes:
1. Palestine -- 2. Human rights -- 3. US dominance, oil and Arab collusion -- 4. The peace process -- 5. Resistance.
1. Palestine -- 2. Human rights -- 3. US dominance, oil and Arab collusion -- 4. The peace process -- 5. Resistance.
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