A Child in Palestine Bries and sometimes even mystifying

and sometimes even mystifying

Tales told from far and wide

By Marta Chudolinska

First appearing as a serial in the Guardian

But the moment she sees Dagmar

A Child in Palestine Bries and sometimes even mystifyingBy Naji al Ali. Published by Verso. Softcover, 117 pages, B&W, 2024 (originally published 1970 1987, originally collected 2009) Naji al Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty year career that would see his cartoons published