Naji Al-Ali; born in 1938 – shot in 22nd of July and passed away on 29 August 1987. A Palestinian cartoonist, noted for the political criticism of Israel and the Arab regimes in his works. He drew over 40,000 cartoons, which often reflected Palestinian and Arab public. He is perhaps best known as creator of the character Handala, pictured in his cartoons as a young witness of the satirized policy or event depicted, and who has since become an icon of Palestinian defiance. On 22 August 1987, while outside the London offices of al-Qabas, a Kuwaiti newspaper for which he drew political caricatures, Naji al-Ali was shot in the face and mortally wounded. Naji al-Ali died five weeks later in Charing Cross Hospital
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:49:55 +0000
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