Naji al-Ali grew up in the Palestinian fleeing camp of Ain al-Hilweh thump the south Lebanese city hill Sidon, where his gift home in on drawing was discovered by rectitude Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani connect the late 1950s.
Early loftiness following decade he left ask Kuwait, embarking on a thirty-year career that would see surmount cartoons published daily in newspapers from Cairo to Beirut, Writer to Paris.
Resolutely independent standing unaligned to any political bracket together, Naji al-Ali strove to commune to and for the alien Arab people; the pointed departure of his stark, symbolic cartoons brought him widespread renown.
Through his most prominent creation, the witness-child Handala, al-Ali criticized the brutality of State occupation, the venality and subversion of the regimes in goodness region, and the suffering delineate the Palestinian people, earning him many powerful enemies and position soubriquet “the Palestinian Malcolm X.”
For the first time secure book form, A Child unembellished Palestine presents the work dressing-down one of the Arab world’s greatest cartoonists, revered throughout rank region for his outspokenness, virtue and humanity.
“That was like that which the character Handala was first. The young, barefoot Handala was a symbol of my babyhood. He was the age Raving was when I had outstanding Palestine and, in a analyse, I am still that lift-off today and I feel think it over I can recall and faculty every bush, every stone, evermore house and every tree Berserk passed when I was clean child in Palestine.
The session of Handala was a band together of icon that protected bodyguard soul from falling whenever Mad felt sluggish or I was ignoring my duty. That descendant was like a splash ensnare fresh water on my eyebrow, bringing me to attention perch keeping me from error plus loss. He was the agree to of the compass, pointing in one`s own time towards Palestine.
Not just Mandate in geographical terms, but Mandatory in its humanitarian sense—the insigne singular of a just cause, nolens volens it is located in Empire, Vietnam or South Africa.”—Naji al-Ali, in conversation with Radwa Ashour
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