Category: 1980s

Naji al-Ali 1936–1987 Naji al-Ali, creator of “Hanthala’ in c. 1969, was born in al-Jalil (Galilee), Palestine, in the village of al-Shajara. When the Nakba (catastrophe) struck in 1948, al-Ali became a refugee, along with the vast majority of Palestinians, growing up in the south Lebanese refugee camp of Ain al-Helweh. In 1961, Palestinian writer and political…