Burlington Free Press · 30 August 1987
CP-1987-014
Palestinian cartoonist dies of gunshot wound
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fied assailant shot him at point-blank range as he left Deutsche Presse-Agentur the al-Qabas office in the Chelsea district.
LONDON — Palestinian political cartoonist Ali Naji Popularly known as Naji al-Ali, Adhani's cartoons Awad al-Adhani died Saturday of a bullet wound to the usually featured a tragicomic dialogue between a head he received in an attack July 22 in the street destitute Palestinian and Arab government figures, the outside his London office. officials being portrayed as wealthy "fat cats." A figure Adhani worked for the largest independent newspa- called Hansala generally looked on as a symbol of the per in the Middle East, the Kuwaiti daily al-Qabas, and silent Arab majority. was described as the most famous cartoonist in the criticized both the Palestine Adhani frequently Arab world, known especially for his criticism of Middle Liberation Organization and Iranian leade
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"Palestinian cartoonist dies of gunshot wound," Burlington Free Press, 30 August 1987. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1987-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1987-014
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