Mohammad Sabaaneh
Mohammad Sabaaneh is an award-winning Palestinian cartoonist and caricaturist, and an active member in the Cartoon Movement. He has been a cartoonist since 2002, and works with the Arab American University. His work has been published in many Arabic newspapers, such as Al-Etihad, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, and Al-Ghad. He has also participated in many international leaflets and books, and his comics have been translated into French, Italian, and Arabic.
Sabaaneh, who received a Master’s degree from the UK in the Illustration By Chevening Scholarship in 2020, is also a member of the International Cartoon Movement and the Middle East representative for CRNI. He’s won many graphics awards, including third place at the Arabic Caricature Contest in 2013 and the Festival award at the Estaq International Festival for Cartoons in 2017. His work has previously been exhibited worldwide, in Britain, Spain, and Washington and participated at many international exhibitions in Berlin, Norway, Holland, Genève, Qatar, and Syria.
His first book, Palestine in Black and White, was published in the US in April 2017 through Just World Books, and published by Al Saqi in the UK, and in Spanish and Catalan. He published his comic, Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, considered the first Palestinian comic in the US, in 2021.
Sabaaneh has 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 have been witness to the horror of war, to help them psychologically.
He organised 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, also exhibited in Belgium, Holland, and London. In 2023, he organised the first Palestinian collective comics exhibition. His mural was exhibited during the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba at UN Headquarters in New York.
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