Hani Abbas

Hani Abbas

By LatAm ARTE

Hani Abbas is a Syrian-Palestinian cartoonist, born in 1977 in the large Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, near Damascus, Syria. In 2012, he posted on Facebook a cartoon showing the flower that symbolizes the Syrian Revolution as immortal, because of this the Syrian secret services immediately threatened him. Hani Abbas had to flee Syria and seek asylum in Switzerland. He is currently based in Switzerland and continues to denounce the atrocities of Cartoon Wars. In May 2014, Kofi Annan awarded him the International Cartoon Editorial Prize (Prix International du Dessin de Presse) in Geneva.

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