A collection of political cartoons by Naji al-Ali, one of the Arab world's most celebrated cartoonists, with an introduction by Joe Sacco. It is built around Handala, the barefoot refugee child who watches events with his back turned, and it criticizes the Israeli occupation, regional regimes, and the suffering of the Palestinian people. (Source: versobooks.com)
Naji al-Ali grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon and worked for decades in Kuwait; his cartoons ran daily in newspapers across the Arab world. The Verso book is arranged in five themed sections: Palestine, Human Rights, U.S. Dominance, Oil and Arab Collusion, Peace Process, and Resistance. The paperback has 128 pages (2024); an earlier edition appeared in 2009. (Source: versobooks.com)
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