Mohammad Sabaaneh
Mohammad Sabaaneh works as a cartoonist since 2002, and works with the Arab American University. He has had his work published in many Arabic newspapers such as Al-Etihad, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, and Al-Ghad.
Sabaaneh is also a member of the International Cartoon Movement and the Middle East representative for CRNI and has won many graphics awards and won third place at the Arabic Caricature Contest in 2013.
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.
He’s given lectures about the art of caricature at Akitso University at Basque County in Spain, Atlantic College and Exeter University in Britain, and the New School, Visual Art School University in New York, North Carolina University, Seattle University, and Texas University. He has also participated in many international leaflets and books.
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.
The Congress Library Keeps original artwork for him in Cartoon Department. Georgetown University has utilized his cartoon in its scientific research.
In 2017, he was invited as a Palestinian influential intellectual young figure to represent the Palestinians in the UN building in New York.
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, and it was moved to Belgium, Holland, and London.
His first book, Palestine in Black and White, was published in the US in April 2017 through Just World Books, and he was awarded the International Estaq Festival First Prize in 2017. It was published by Al Saqi in the UK and Sabaaneh participated in the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2018. Recently, it was published in Spanish and Catalan.
He was an honoured guest at Estaq International Festival for Cartoons in 2017, where he received the Festival award.
In 2020, Sabaaneh got a Master's degree from the UK in the Illustration By Chevening Scholarship. In 2021, he published his comic, Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, in the US, considered the first Palestinian comic. His comics were translated into French, Italian, and Arabic.
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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