Eaten by the Wolf (Naji al-Ali Life) (Ar) أكلة الذئب!!

Arabic
By: Shaker al-Nabulsi
Softcover
504 pp
Arab Institute for Research & Publishing, Beirut, 2007
14 x 21 cm
'9789953369938
Biography

A'klah al Tha'b!! Al Sirah al fniah llrsam Naji al A'li - Eaten by the Wolf - The Artistic Life of Naji al-Ali. Biography of the immortal Palestinian cartoonist. Book contains several of Naji al-Ali's illustrations.

Naji al-Ali (b.1936/37- d.1987) developed a stark and symbolic style during his life. Unaligned with any political party he strove to speak to and for ordinary Arab people. His life was seamlessly interwoven with the trials of exiled Palestinians. Due to invasion, censorship and threats he lived in exile most of his life, much of the time between Beirut and Kuwait. The last two years of his life he spent in London. On Wednesday July 22nd, 1987 he was shot in the head by a lone gunman as he was going to work at the Al-Qabas offices in Ives Street, Chelsea. After five weeks in a coma on a life support machine in a St Stephen's and Charing Cross hospitals in London, he died at 1am on Saturday 30th August at the age of 51.
He was posthumously awarded the annual Golden Pen award of the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers (FIEJ) in 1988. This award is given to recognize outstanding actions in favour of freedom of expression and the jury was composed of publishers from 28 member countries. Individual publishers in Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand and Pakistan are associate members as are 13 leading western news agencies.