November 2012
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Cartoonist Ali Ferzat plans to relaunch his... →
Syrian anti-Assad cartoonist Ali Ferzat plans to relaunch his satirical magazine in Cairo. He fled Syria last year after having his hands broken in Damascus in an attack he blamed on security forces. In partnership with his colleague former Syrian news anchor Ibrahim Jubain, Ferzat is applying for a license to publish the satirical magazine al-Domari, which means the Lamp Lighter, Reuters reports....
March 2012
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Ali Ferzat on renewed creative resistance in Syria →
“The uprising has redefined art in Syria,” he says. “It’s exposed the gulf between real artists and mercenaries in the pay of the state. Most - many of them my colleagues - have failed that test. It’s changed what Syrians see as art.
“There’s a new revolutionary art in what people have been writing and drawing and singing in the protests - true to the...
December 2011
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http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/slideshow-syrian-ca... →
comicsreporter (Tom Spurgeon)
i hope this is recent footage of ali ferzat, because he looks and sounds good — bit.ly/sKMj9G
3:40 PM Dec 15th via web
http://twitter.com/comicsreporter/status/147325101308788737
November 2011
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September 2011
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from the badly google-translated web page of ali...
Latest News» message to all the loving artist Ali Farzat 09/12/2011
Message to all the loving artist Ali Farzat
Quoting the words of the artist Ali Farzat you: your love and your feelings noble Anstana and Djaa and my pain I love you all with all my heart. and note: when I am still dressing of the hands I was surprised that all the palm has sprouted his ten fingers. Ali Farzat .. q
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Egyptian comics/art show in solidarity with Ali... →
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Petition in support of free expression! →
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