"Searching for Unity" A Group Exhibit of Photographs

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Hanzala, Palestine - Naji al-Ali is one of the best known political cartoonists in the Arab world. Here we see one of his most famous characters, Hanzala, the small boy viewed from behind with his hands behind his back. Hanzala, which means bitterness in Arabic, represents the artist when he was forced to leave his home at age ten. In the cartoon above, Hanzala watches a refugee camp from afar, as keys, which have come to represent Palestinian longing to return home, are strung on barbed wire.

 


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