page_title: Mahmoud Kahil
section_title: Early career
hierarchical_section_title: Mahmoud Kahil / Early career
caption_attribution_description: English: Mahmoud Kahil Early years 1960s
context_page_description: Mahmoud Kahil محمود كحيل was a Lebanese-born British editorial cartoonist.
context_section_description: Mahmoud Kahil was born in Tripoli,  North Lebanon in 1936.
  He had an innate gift for drawing satirical cartoons about society and never received any formal artistic training. He enrolled at the American University of Beirut, but dropped out in his sophomore year to work as a graphic designer at an advertising agency in Beirut and pursue cartooning.
  Kahil joined the weekly magazine Al Usbu Al-Arabi as a layout designer from 1961 to 1963. While working as an art director for various publications, he also began drawing professional cartoons. From 1963 to 1965 he drew the cartoon strip Busat Al Rih in the children's magazine Shahrazade. In 1965, he moved to the Lissan Al Hal newspaper and started publishing his first political cartoons editorially, remaining with the paper until 1966. Kahil drew cartoons for Mu'assassat Al Hayat from 1966 to 1968 before moving to Dar Annahar from 1968-1971 to work as art director of Al Hasna' Magazine. From 1971 to 1973, he was art director for Al-Usbu' Alarabi while also publishing cartoons in the English-language Daily Star newspaper and Monday Morning magazine.
  In 1967, Kahil, along with Farid Salman and Roro Breidi, began producing the ambitious and futuristic newsreel series Actualitees Libanaises exclusively for major cinemas in Hamra, Beirut. The three artists would film the audience entering the cinemas and rush back to the lab, develop the footage and then screen the clips back to the audience before the film began. In producing the series, Kahil became the first cartoonist to draw live events for the audience on the big screen. Actualitees Libanaises is considered one of the best filmed newsreels in the region, archiving the history of Lebanon as it unfolded.
caption: Mahmoud Kahil in the 1960s
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