A Child in Palestine
Subtitle: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali
By: introduction by Joe Sacco.
Contributors: Sacco, Joe.
Publisher: Verso Books; Sacco, Joe (INT)
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781844673650
Subjects: ʻAlī, Nājī; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Caricatures and cartoons; Palestinian Arabs -- Caricatures and cartoons; Artists -- Palestine -- Biography; Political cartoons; Politics and culture -- Arab countries; Middle East -- Politics and government -- Comic books, strips, etc
Genres: Caricatures and cartoons; Biography; Comic books, strips, etc
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: 1. Palestine; title: 2. Human rights; title: 3. US dominance, oil and Arab collusion; title: 4. The peace process; title: 5. Resistance.