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His name is Handala. A character created by Palestinian newspaper cartoonist Naji al-Ali in 1969 — two years after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war — the boy known as Handala is a symbol of the ...
Fatima Al Ali capped off her memorable week with the Capitals by taking a selfie for the ages. Al Ali, a member of the United Arab Emirates women’s national hockey team, traveled to D.C. from ...
Naji al-Ali, 51, was shot in the back of the neck as he walked to the offices of the Kuwaiti newspaper where he worked in Knightsbridge on July 22, 1987. He died from his wounds a month later.
Palestinian political cartoonist Naji al-Ali was born in 1937 in al-Shajara, a small Palestinian village in the Galilee. In May 1948, the village was completely destroyed by Jewish forces, and its 893 ...
Thirty years ago, the cartoonist Naji al-Ali was gunned down on the streets of London. Ali was a fearless critic of all authority and a Palestinian refugee. He had fled Kuwait three years earlier, ...