Palestine occupied territory

Visual Intifada: Naji Al Ali works in Ravenna

Visual Intifada: exhibition of Palestine cartoonist Naji Al Ali

From 16th January 2009 to 14th February 2009

Open: Monday to Sunday, 10 am to 1 pm \ 4 pm to 8 pm. Closed Thursday afternoon.

Opening Friday 16th at 6 pm. The debate on Palestine with Tahar Lamri, Alessandro Taddei, Elettra Stamboulis will follow

Galleria Mirada – Libreria Interno 4

Via Mazzini 83 Ravenna

National Council of Palestine - In: Tom, Dick, Harry, Huey, Dewey Louie. Out: Democracy

Naji Al Ali is the creator of Handala, the young Palestine boy who always turns the shoulder to the reader.

Naji Al Ali (Palestine 1937 – London 1987) did more than 40.000 illustrations published in several Arab countries. He was killed under mysterious circumstances in summer 1987, in London where he was in exile. The exhibition shows some works translated into Italian by Tahar Lamri, Algerian writer who lives in Ravenna.

You can buy the reproductions of his works. The money will be donated to the hospitals run by Mustafa Barghouti - “The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees” - in Cisgiordania and Gaza Strip. People who wish use the exhibition for the same purpose can contact Associazione Mirada.

You can download Naji Al Ali’s works here.

Visual Intifada is a project born after the invasion of Israel and its army into Palestinian territory and denounces the widespread and devastating silence of the last weeks.

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Wednesday, January 14 2009 By Nat Röfu - Events

Shoe Thrower - Banksy Revisited

Ben Heine hits two times. Above the “Shoe Thrower” inspired to Bansky and dedicated to Muntadar Al-Zaidi. Below something freaky. It was the 4th of January, in Barcelona, placa Sant Jaume. Some people demonstrated pro Palestine and one of them showed the Ben’s artwork The New Palestine Think Tank'.

Image source: AFP - Getty Images

Tuesday, January 6 2009 By Nat Röfu - Political comics

Bloody New Year in Palestine

by Ben Heine.

Saturday, January 3 2009 By Nat Röfu - Political comics

KOMIKAZEN: 4th INTERNATIONAL REALITY COMIC FESTIVAL

IN RAVENNA ON 10 AND 11 OCTOBER 2008

EXHIBITIONS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS UNTIL 7 JANUARY 2009

Ravenna once again will become the centre of reality comics and experimental comics with the Komikazen Festival. Two days of exhibitions, meetings and workshops with a final performance on the occasion of the “notte d’oro” in Ravenna.

In this fourth edition of Komikazen, the International Festival of Reality Comics, Ravenna is happy to host the first exhibition of Lebanese artists in Italy – who will meet the public and schools of the city among others – and in particular it is honoured to have as one of its guest Anke Feuchtenberger, who will not only do two exhibitions, but also a seminar with the women of the shelter of the prostitution project in Ravenna.

Another guest of the Festival will be Federico Del Barrio, another unquestioned master of comic art from Spain together with Raùl and the writer Felipe Cava who has already been a guest in previous editions.

In addition to the German artist and Del Barrio, the young Lebanese author Zeina Abirached will also be present: the new Satrapi, acclaimed at the last festival of Angouleme, tells with delicacy and irony stories of a Beirut that has disappeared with a naïf and calligraphic style.

Another guest from the Near East will be the Palestinian artist Samir Harb: architect by profession (on the staff of the Riwaq Biennial, the only international contemporary art event in the Palestinian territory) who loves graphic novels however. Palestine had a great artist, Naji al Ali, who was killed in mysterious circumstances in London in 1988. Samir used the same disenchanted approach and proved how the weapon of caricature can be effective in revealing hypocrisy and injustice but also the joy of everyday life.

For the second year the best talents in comic art from the Region of Emilia-Romagna will be awarded prizes; in fact on the occasion of Komikazen there will be a presentation of two books by the winners of the last edition, Leonardo Guardigli (for Centro Andrea Pazienza) and Marino Neri (Kappa Publishing).

The exhibitions will be held in various locations in the city and will be open to the public for a longer period: some until 7 January 2009 (consult the detailed calendar in the site).

IN RAVENNA ON 10 AND 11 OCTOBER 2008

EXHIBITIONS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS UNTIL 7 JANUARY 2009

For the detailed biographies of the authors exhibited and the guests visit the site www.mirada.it/komikazen

For information info@mirada.it tel. +39.0544 217359 or +39 346 4925633

Press office: Marcella Matacena 338.2028579 marcella.matacena@libero.it

Friday, September 19 2008 By Nat Röfu - Festival

I love you, but

Ben Heine after René Magritte.

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Wednesday, August 15 2007 By Nat Röfu - Political comics

Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory

By Ben Heine

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Thursday, July 26 2007 By Nat Röfu - Political comics

Susiya

29 June 2007

We received this by a former peace volunteers in Palestine.

Palestinians from Susiya face threat of eviction

On 6 June, the Israeli high court lifted the temporary injunction that that had prevented the Israeli military from performing evacuations and home demolitions in the Palestinian village of Susiya since 2001.

The high court gave the village leaders thirty days to present a map of the area--showing the existing structures and areas where villagers want to build houses--to the Israeli Civil Administration (or District Coordination Office--DCO.) According to the court, after the thirty days those who have submitted plans will have an additional forty-five day grace period in which demolitions will not be carried out, after which time the decision to evict or not evict will be left up to the DCO.

The judges said that the court had requested the map of the area six months ago and had not received it. However, a villager told CPTers that the village leadership had already submitted maps on two different occasions and the DCO had rejected them due to small technicalities.

The villagers hired engineers to fulfill all the request of the judges. On 25 June the DCO ordered the Israeli soldiers to stop the engineers.

On 6 July, Susiya could be destroyed.

Logan

The Israeli pacifist of Ta'ayush launched a petion to support the fate of the villagers.

drawing by Gianluca Costantini