Child In Palestine Pa
, by Al-Ali,NajiNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781844673650 | 1844673650
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/23/2009
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.