A child in Palestine : the cartoons of Naji al-Ali / Nājī al Alī

By: Alī, al NājīContributor(s): Alī al Nājī; Sacco, Joe | Sacco, JoeMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :Brijwasi Book Distributors | :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092Publication details: New York : Verso Books, 2009Description: ix, 117 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cmISBN: 9781844673650Subject(s): History | History of Asia | Middle East (Near East) | Arab-Israeli conflict -- Caricatures and cartoons | Political cartoons | Middle East -- Politics and government -- Comic books, strips | Palestinian Arabs | Politics and culture | Politics and government | Middle East | Comic -- Palästina -- Geschichte 20. Jh -- BildbandDDC classification: 956.94 ALI
Contents:
1. Palestine -- 2. Human rights -- 3. US dominance, oil and Arab collusion -- 4. The peace process -- 5. Resistance.
Summary: 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
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1. Palestine --
2. Human rights --
3. US dominance, oil and Arab collusion --
4. The peace process --
5. Resistance.

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

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