A Child in Palestine
A Child in Palestine: Cartoons of Naji al-Ali Naji Salim al-Ali, Joe Sacco (Introduction)
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844673650
DDC: 741
Edition: Paperback; 2009-06-23
Summary:
Throughout history artists have faced the threat of violence when
their work offended the state or the political elite. The late
Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali was just such an artist, producing
thousands of cartoons satirizing the powers that be in the Middle
East, and was ultimately assassinated in Grosvenor Square, London.
Emerging from humble beginnings in the refugee camps, for over 30
years he was an uncompromising critic of a regressive Arab political
culture and of Western intervention in Arab affairs. Known as the
Palestinian Malcolm X, Naji is still the most popular artist in the
Arab world, loved for his defense of ordinary people, and for his
criticism of repression and despotism. Paradoxically, strict
censorship and widespread illiteracy in the Arab world helped Naji to
achieve his remarkable success. His unrelenting cartoons exposed the
brutality of the Israeli army and the hypocrisy of the PLO, earning
him many powerful enemies.
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