Birth: 2/2/1972 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Gaza on 2 Feb. 1972 to a family originally from Al-Mukhraka village (near today’s Moshav Tekuma); completed her high-school education in the Gulf, where her father had found work as a teacher; after the 1991 Gulf War, returned to Gaza; enrolled at Al-Azhar University in Gaza and graduated from the Dept. of Mathematics; worked as a teacher of Mathematics for three years, then resigned in 1999 to devote her time for caricature; is regarded the first woman to draw political cartoons for a daily newspaper in Palestine and the Arab world; worked at Al-Quds newspaper from 1999-2002, and gained fame during that time (also as newspapers throughout the Arab World began to copy her cartoons); her work mocks the PA as well as the Arab states for their failure to support the Palestinian people, and vilifies Israel; she has also adopted a recurring character, a simple man of the people called ‘Abu Aid’ (“the Father of the Return”); is a member of Naji Al-Ali’s Plastic Art Society in Palestine and of the Illustration Agency for Caricature in Britain; received the first prize awarded for the caricaturist in the competition of woman’s inventiveness, organized by the PA Ministry of Culture in March 1999; won many other awards, incl. the prize for the “Best Caricaturist in the Arab World” in 2001; currently publishes her work in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, as well as on her own internet website; her husband, Rami Sa’ad (Abu Al-Mahdi), a known student and Fateh activist was killed by Israeli soldiers in May 2003.
