Mohammad Sabaaneh, May 8, 2024 at 1pm ET
The 394th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 1 pm ET. ONLINE PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM. Please email comicssymposium@gmail.com to register for this event. Free and open to the public. Please note 1pm starting time.
Special Session with Palestinian Cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh
The New York Comics & Picture Symposium presents a special online meeting with Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh. Two books of Sabaaneh’s work have been published in English: White and Black, a collection of his political cartoons, and most recently the graphic memoir, Power Born of Dreams, in which his own experience as a political prisoner in Israel functions as a framing narrative for Palestinian stories that illustrate the persistent violence and grinding humiliation Palestinian people have been subject to under Israeli occupation. He continues to draw regular political cartoons chronicling the ongoing genocide in Gaza; these can be seen globally via his instagram account at @sabaaneh. Mohammad will offer the community a presentation about his work and will answer questions in a session moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos.
Mohammad Sabaaneh is a Palestinian cartoonist and a former political prisoner in Israel. His work has been published in the Middle East Monitor as well as Al-Quds Al-Arabi, and he is the principal political cartoonist for the Palestinian Authority’s daily newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida. Mohammad is a Middle East representative for the Cartoonists Rights Network International and teaches art at the Arab American University of Palestine. His work has been included in international art fairs around the world. The author of the cartoon collection White and Black (Just World Books, 2017) and the graphic memoir Power Born of Dreams (Street Noise Books, 2021), he recently received his master’s degree on a Chevening Scholarship from the University for the Creative Arts, London, UK. He currently lives in Ramallah, in the West Bank.