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Our guest for this episode is Mohammad Sabaaneh, prominent Palestinian cartoonist/artist.
Mohammad Sabaaneh
About Mohammad Sabaaneh
Mohammad Sabaaneh works as a cartoonist since 2002. He published his work in many Arabic newspapers such as Al-Etihad, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Al-Ghad. Currently, he is working at the Palestinian press, Al-Haya Al-Jadeda. Sabaaneh is also a member of the International Cartoon Movement and the Middle East representative for CRNI. He won many graphics awards and won third place at the Arabic Caricature Contest in 2013.
Moreover, he had his personal exhibition in Britain, Spain, and Washington and participated at many international exhibitions in Berlin, Norway, Holland, Genève, Qatar, and Syria.
Sabaaneh gave lectures about the art of caricature at AKitso University at Basque County in Spain, Atlantic College and Exeter University in Britain and the New School, Visual Art School University in New York, North Carolina University, Seattle University, and Texas University. He also participated in many international leaflets and books. He used the art of caricature with deaf students to help them use more than one dialogue language to express their feelings, and with children who witnessed the Israeli assault to help them psychologically. The Congress Library Keeps original artwork for him in Cartoon Department. Georgetown University has utilized his cartoon in its scientific research.
In 2017 Sabaaneh was invited as a Palestinian influential intellectual young figure to represent the Palestinians in the UN building in NYC.
He organized two international exhibitions in Palestine, the first in 2014, with the participation of 99 artists in Mahmoud Darwish Museum. The second was in 2018 (from the world to Jerusalem) with the participation of 155 artists, and it was moved to Belgium, Holland, and London.
In addition, his first book was published in the US in April 2017 through Just World Book publisher, and he got the International Estaq festival First Prize in 2017, and Publish His book by Al Saqi publisher in the UK and participated in Edinburgh Book Festival in 2018. Recently his book was published in Spanish and Catalani languages.
He was an honored guest at Estaq International Festival for Cartoons in 2017, and he got the festival award for his book (White and Black).
In 2020 he got a Master's degree from the UK in the Illustration By Chevening Scholarship. In 2021 he published his comics in the USA. (POWER BORN OF DREAMS: MY STORY IS PALESTINE ) is considered as the first Palestinian comic.