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First Arabian Caricature Festival
"Recently the First Arabian Caricature Festival was held at Jeddah’s Serafi Mega Mall to celebrate this satirical art.
"The two-day festival, which took place April 9-10, displayed 250 drawings by 22 editorial cartoonists from all over the Middle East. Sponsored by Priority Option, the festival also held a caricature contest to encourage new artists.
"Five local artists won the competititon: Yazeed Al-Harthi, Jalal AlBkheet, Hussein Baswaid, Hussam Al-Zaharani and Hind Al-Afnan. [...]
"The festival honored a number of the Arabian caricature pioneers. Ahmed Toghan and Mustafa M. Hussein from Egypt, Mohammed A. Farzat from Syria and Emad Hajjaj from Jordan."
Source: Arab News (Saudi Arabia), April 17, 2008
Posted at: 2008-04-25
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