🇵🇸 Naji al-Ali | Palestine Diary

"The child #Handala is my signature, everyone asks me about him wherever I go. His name is Handala and he has promised the people that he will remain true to himself. I drew him as a child who is not beautiful, his hair is like the hair of a hedgehog who uses his thorns as a weapon. Handala is not a fat, happy, relaxed, or pampered child, he is barefooted like the refugee camp children.

Handala was born ten years old, and he will always be ten years old. At that age I left my homeland, and when he returns, Handala will still be ten, and then he will start growing up. The laws of nature do not apply to him. He is unique. Things will become normal again when the homeland returns. I presented him to the poor and named him Handala as a symbol of bitterness. At first he was a Palestinian child, but his consciousness developed to have a national and then a global and human horizon.

Music: Munir Bashir
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🇵🇸 Naji Al ALI An Artist With Vision. ناجي العلي فنان ذو رؤيا

Audience Award - Arab Screen Independent Film Festival 1999
Journalists Choice- Human Rights Film Festival Ramallah 2000.
In July 1987 the Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al Ali was shot by unknown assassin.
في يوليو من العام 1987 أطلق النار على الفنان الفلسطيني ناجي العلي بمدينة لندن، مما أدى إلى وفاته.الفيلم يعرض أعمال ناجي ويتطرق الى سيرة حياته منذ ولادته بالجليل إلى وفاته بمدينة لندن

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🇵🇸 Ghassan Kanafani: Voice of Palestine (1936-1972) - Palestine Chronicle –

Kanafani was one of the most important figures in 20th century literature. He was also a refugee, a revolutionary Marxist and an internationalist. The Israelis claimed the assassination was a response to the Lod Airport attack two months earlier, although Kanafani had played no direct role in this. He was, according to the obituary in the Lebanese Daily Star, ‘a commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages.’ Kanafani was at the time of his death the official spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the editor of its paper #AlHadaf. The organisation saluted ‘the leader, the writer, the #strategist, and the visionary.

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