Research Catalog

Title

A child in Palestine : the cartoons of Naji al-Ali / introduction by Joe Sacco.

Author

ʻAlī, Nājī

Publication

London ; New York : Verso Books, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sacco, Joe

Description

ix, 117 p. : chiefly ill.; 20 cm.

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.

Subject

• 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

Genre/Form

Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Palestine -- 2. Human rights -- 3. US dominance, oil, and Arab collusion -- 4. The peace process -- 5. Resistance.

ISBN

• 9781844673650
• 1844673650

LCCN

^^2009446713

OCLC

• 286422242
• SCSB-11491875

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library