Contributions

  • Sacco, Joe. - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Verso Books, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

29,250 words, Guess

Page Count

117 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCDS119.7 .A6435 2009

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.

Subjects

Genres

  • Comic books, strips, etc
  • Biography
  • Caricatures and cartoons

Other Editions

  • A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-AliVerso Books2009-01-01

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