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ARTICLES RELATED TO Naji al-Ali - Early Life | | | |  Naji al-Ali - Early Life: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Early LifeNaji al-Ali was born in 1938 in the village of Shajra, located between Tiberias and Nazareth. He went into exile in the south of Lebanon with his family in 1948 during the Nakba and lived in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon, where he attended the Union of Christian Churches school. After gaining his Certificat he worked in the orchards of Sidon, then moved to Tripoli where he attended the White Friars' vocational school for two years.
Naji al-Ali then moved to Beirut, where he lived in a tent in Chatila camp and worked in various industrial jobs. In 1957, after qualifying as a car mechanic, he travelled to Sa ...
See also:Naji al-Ali, Naji al-Ali - Early Life, Naji al-Ali - Career as a cartoonist and journalist, Naji al-Ali - Work positions and awards, Naji al-Ali - Handala, Naji al-Ali - Other characters and motifs, Naji al-Ali - Assassination, Naji al-Ali - Sources Read more here: » Naji al-Ali: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Early Life |
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| | | | Naji al-Ali - Early Life: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Career as a cartoonist and journalist In 1959 Naji al-Ali returned to Lebanon, and that year he joined the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM), but was expelled four times in the space of a year for lack of party discipline. Between 1960 and 1961, along with comrades from the ANM, he published a handwritten political journal entitled Al-Sarkha ('the cry').
In 1960, he entered the Art Academy of Lebanon, but was unable to continue his studies there as he was imprisoned for political reasons soon afterwards. After his release he moved to Ty ...
See also:Naji al-Ali, Naji al-Ali - Early Life, Naji al-Ali - Career as a cartoonist and journalist, Naji al-Ali - Work positions and awards, Naji al-Ali - Handala, Naji al-Ali - Other characters and motifs, Naji al-Ali - Assassination, Naji al-Ali - Sources Read more here: » Naji al-Ali: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Career as a cartoonist and journalist |
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| | | | Naji al-Ali - Early Life: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Assassination An unknown youth opened fire on Naji al-Ali in London on the 22 July 1987, hitting him in the right temple. He remained unconscious until his death on 29 August 1987. Although his will requested that he be buried in Ain al-Hilweh beside his father, this proved impossible to arrange and he was buried in Brookwood Islamic Cemetery outside London. It is still not known who was responsible for his assassination. British police investigating the killing arrested a Palestinian student in Hull University, Isma'il Hassan Sawan and found a cache of weapons in his apartment, but he ...
See also:Naji al-Ali, Naji al-Ali - Early Life, Naji al-Ali - Career as a cartoonist and journalist, Naji al-Ali - Work positions and awards, Naji al-Ali - Handala, Naji al-Ali - Other characters and motifs, Naji al-Ali - Assassination, Naji al-Ali - Sources Read more here: » Naji al-Ali: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Assassination |
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| | | | Naji al-Ali - Early Life: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Work positions and awards In his career as a political cartoonist, Naji al-Ali produced over 40,000 drawings. They generally deal with the situation of the Palestinian people, depicting suffering and resistance and harshly criticising the Palestinian leadership and 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. Unlike many political cartoonists, specific politicians do not appear in person in his work: as he stated, " ...
See also:Naji al-Ali, Naji al-Ali - Early Life, Naji al-Ali - Career as a cartoonist and journalist, Naji al-Ali - Work positions and awards, Naji al-Ali - Handala, Naji al-Ali - Other characters and motifs, Naji al-Ali - Assassination, Naji al-Ali - Sources Read more here: » Naji al-Ali: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Work positions and awards |
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| | | | Naji al-Ali - Early Life: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Handala Handala is the most famous of Naji al-Ali's characters. He is depicted as a ten-year old boy, and appeared for the first time in Al-Siyasa in Kuwait in 1969. The figure turned his back to the viewer from the year 1973, and clasped his hands behind his back. The artist explained that the ten-year old represented his age when forced to leave Palestine and would not grow up until he could return to his homeland; his turned back and clasped hands symbolised the character's rejection of "outside solutions". Handala wears ragged clothes and is barefoot, symbolising his allegiance to the poor. In later cartoons, he sometimes appea ...
See also:Naji al-Ali, Naji al-Ali - Early Life, Naji al-Ali - Career as a cartoonist and journalist, Naji al-Ali - Work positions and awards, Naji al-Ali - Handala, Naji al-Ali - Other characters and motifs, Naji al-Ali - Assassination, Naji al-Ali - Sources Read more here: » Naji al-Ali: Encyclopedia II - Naji al-Ali - Handala |
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