Naji al-Ali, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Naji al-Ali

Palestinian Cartoonist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Date of Death: 29-Aug-1987

Profession: painter, journalist, caricaturist

Nationality: State of Palestine

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Naji Salim Hussain al-Ali (Arabic: ???? ???? ?????? Naji Salim al-‘Ali ; born c.
1938 – 29 August 1987) was a Palestinian cartoonist, noted for the political criticism of the Arab regimes and Israel in his works.
He has been described as the greatest Palestinian cartoonist and probably the best-known cartoonist in the Arab world.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.
On 22 July 1987, while outside the London offices of al-Qabas, a Kuwaiti newspaper for which he drew political caricatures, al-Ali was shot in the neck and mortally wounded.
Naji al-Ali died five weeks later in Charing Cross Hospital.