CARTOON EXHIBITION
Remembering Naji Al-Ali
with
an exhibition of political cartoons
by the late Naji Al-Ali
An exhibition of a sample of
the 30,000+ various issues relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Date
& Location To Be Determined
Presented by the
National Council on Canada-Arab Relations (NCCAR)
in cooperation with The
Ambassadors Online Magazine (www.ambassadors.net)
and the Chair of Arab Studies at the University of Ottawa
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About the Artist ::
Remembering Palestinian Cartoonist – Naji Al-Ali
 Naji Salim al-Ali (1937 - 1987) was a
Palestinian cartoonist, noted for the sharp political criticism in his work.
He drew over 40,000 cartoons, which often reflected Palestinian and Arab
public opinion and were sharply critical commentaries on Palestinian and Arab
politics and political leaders. 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. Naji al-Ali was shot in
London
by unknown persons on 22 July, 1987, and died five weeks later.
Al-Ali’s cartoons generally
deal with the situation of the Palestinian people, depicting suffering and
resistance and harshly criticising the Arab regimes. Naji al-Ali was a fierce
opponent of any settlement that would not vindicate the Palestinians' right to
all of historic
Palestine
, and many of his cartoons express this opposition.
Naji
al-Ali published three books of his cartoons, in 1976, 1983 and 1985, and was
preparing another at the time of his death. In 1979, Naji al-Ali was elected
president of the League of Arab Cartoonists. In 1979 and 1980, he received the
first prize in the Arab cartoonists exhibitions held in
Damascus
. International Federation of Newspaper Publishers awarded him the
"Golden Pen of Freedom" posthumously in 1988.
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