A Child in Palestine collects the work of one of the Arab world’s greatest cartoonists Naji
al-Ali known as ‘the Palestinian Malcolm X’. Discovered in the 1950s he was revered
throughout the region for his outspokenness honesty and humanity. Resolutely independent
al-Ali strove to speak to and for the ordinary Arab people. The pointed satire of his stark
symbolic cartoons brought him widespread renown. His most celebrated creation the child
Hanthala exposed the brutality of Israeli occupation the venality and corruption of the
region’s regimes and the suffering of the Palestinian people. Hanthala is today seen as a
surrogate witness to ongoing horrors and a beacon for Palestinian resistance.
