A Child in Palestine

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The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali

By Naji al-Ali

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A Child in Palestine collects the work of one of the Arab world’s greatest cartoonists, Naji al-Ali, known as ‘the Palestinian Malcolm X’. Discovered in the 1950s, he was revered throughout the region for his outspokenness, honesty, and humanity. Resolutely independent, al-Ali strove to speak to... Read More

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Al-Ali remains a hero in the Arab world, in particular to the Palestinians, who say his name with the same tenderness with which they mention their great poets’
Joe Sacco, from the Introduction

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A Child in Palestine collects the work of one of the Arab world’s greatest cartoonists, Naji al-Ali, known as ‘the Palestinian Malcolm X’. Discovered in the 1950s, he was revered throughout the region for his outspokenness, honesty, and humanity.

Resolutely independent, al-Ali strove to speak to and for the ordinary Arab people. The pointed satire of his stark, symbolic cartoons brought him widespread renown.

His most celebrated creation, the child Hanthala, exposed the brutality of Israeli occupation, the venality and corruption of the region’s regimes, and the suffering of the Palestinian people. Hanthala is today seen as a surrogate witness to ongoing horrors and a beacon for Palestinian resistance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804297124

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 September 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Contributors:

Introduction by Joe Sacco

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 191.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 128

Collections

Education & Reference Fiction Graphic Novels Humour Naji al-Ali Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Naji al-Ali (1936-87) grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon. His gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he moved to Kuwait, embarking on a thirty-year career that would see his cartoons published daily in newspapers from Cairo to Beirut, London to Paris. In 1987, he was assassinated in London. His killers have never been found.