Mohammad Saba'aneh
Mohammad Saba'aneh (Muḥammad Sabāʿina; born 1978) is a Palestinian cartoonist and caricaturist from Jenin district, West Bank.
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- Name
- Mohammad Saba'aneh
- Occupation
- Caricaturist
- Born
- 1978
- Birthplace
- Jenin district, Palestine
- Nationality
- Palestine
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Mohammad Saba'aneh (Muḥammad Sabāʿina; born 1978) is a Palestinian cartoonist and caricaturist from Jenin district, West Bank.
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Mohammad Saba'aneh (born 1979) is a caricaturist, editorial cartoonist and painter, a national of Palestine. The caricaturist was born in Kuwait City. Mohammad Saba'aneh worked for Arab American University and lived in Ramallah.
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• Name — Mohammad Saba'aneh • Native Name — محمد سباعنة • Occupation — Caricaturist • Born — 1978 • Birthplace — Jenin district, Palestine
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Saba'aneh is a cartoonist for Al-Hayat al-Jadida, the official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, and also works at the Arab American University in Jenin. He has been an active member on the Cartoon Movement. In September 2021, Saba'aneh released Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, a graphic memoir which recounts his five months spent in an Israeli prison. The book won a 2022 Palestine Book Award. In 2025, he collaborated with The Lakes International Comic Art Festival to release Safaa Odah's Safaa and the Tent, a collection of comics made by Odah from October 2023 to December 2024 while living in a tent after being displaced by the Gaza war. He provided the art for the 2025 book Eyes on Gaza by Khaled Beydoun. In 2026, he published 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide, a comics collection about the Gaza genocide. In June of the same year, he published Welcome to Hell: From the West Bank to Gaza, about his brother Thamer’s 13-month incarceration.
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In February 2021, Saba'aneh was detained at the King Hussain checkpoint between Jordan and the West Bank and was jailed for five months in an Israeli prison, which was depicted in Power Born of Dreams.
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- 1.Mohammad Saba'aneh profile in gohod.net
- 2.Palestinian Cartoonist Mohammad Saba'aneh Jailed (but not Charged) by Israel. The World from PRX. 2013-08-15.
- 3.Mohammad Sabaaneh. www.cartoonmovement.com.
- 4.Mohammad, Sabaaneh. Power Born of Dreams: My Story Is Palestine. School Library Journal.
- 5.Aye, Jon. Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine - Mohammad Sabaaneh Provides an Award-Winning Account of Imprisonment, Confinement and Interrogation. Broken Frontier. 2022-11-15.
- 6.Power born of dreams: my story is palestine. Palestine Book Awards.
- 7.Winners of Palestine Book Awards 2022 announced. Middle East Monitor. 2022-11-04.
- 8.Oliver, Andy. Preview: Safaa and the Tent - LICAF Bring Palestinian Cartoonist Safaa Odah's Account of Living through the War on Gaza to Print. Broken Frontier. 2025-03-18.
- 9.Vigna, Giovanni. Khaled Beydoun’s Eyes on Gaza: World’s first digital genocide. The New Arab.
- 10.Staff, Broken Frontier. Street Noise Books' Publishing Line-Up for Spring 2025 Announced - Another Selection of Socially Relevant Comics Work to Watch Out For. Broken Frontier. 2024-10-15.
- 11.Wadi, Ramona. Capturing the brutality of occupation in 30 Seconds From Gaza. The New Arab.
- 12.30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide by Mohammad Sabaaneh. www.publishersweekly.com.
- 13.Oliver, Andy. 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide - Mohammad Sabaaneh Brings the Harrowing Stories of Palestinians to the Page in this Broken Frontier Award-Winning Collection. Broken Frontier. 2026-03-10.
- 14.Brown, Kevin. Welcome to Hell: From the West Bank to Gaza. The Comics Journal.
- 15.Welcome to Hell: From the West Bank to Gaza by Mohammad Sabaaneh. www.publishersweekly.com.
- 16.Murphy, Maureen Clare. Jailed by Israel for his cartoons, Mohammad Saba’aneh speaks out. The Electronic Intifada. 2013-11-13.
- 17.Abunimah, Ali. Cartoonist once jailed by Israel now targeted by Palestinian Authority. The Electronic Intifada. 2015-02-04.
- 18.Murphy, Maureen Clare. Mohammad Sabaaneh's dangerous cartoons. The Electronic Intifada. 2017-05-04.
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