Birth: 1/1/1957 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1957; holds an MA in Architecture from Kiev University, Ukraine (1983); worked – besides drawing cartoons – as an architect ever since; was imprisoned several times by Israel and spent a total of 14 months in Israeli jails during the years 1986-1992; editorial cartoonist for Al-Quds daily newspaper; adopted the pen-name ‘Ghassan’ in the mid-1980s; received the Ghassan Kanafani Award for excellence as a cartoonist in 1996; prepared cartoons to supplement several Palestinian brochures and books; held exhibitions locally and internationally; collected some of his cartoons in a book in 1996; head-writer to the Palestinian version of the Sesame Street TV program in 1997; some of his cartoons were censored by Israeli authorities.
