Osama Hajjaj
Osama Eid Hajjaj is a Palestinian-Jordanian cartoonist, born in Amman in 1973.
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Osama Hajjaj
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- Name
- Osama Hajjaj
- Born
- 9 January 1973
- Birthplace
- Amman, Jordan
- Known for
- Political cartoons and caricatures
- Nationality
- Jordan
- Occupation
- painter · caricaturist
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Osama Eid Hajjaj is a Palestinian-Jordanian cartoonist, born in Amman in 1973.
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• Name — Osama Hajjaj • Born — 9 January 1973 • Birthplace — Amman, Jordan • Known for — Political cartoons and caricatures • Website — Osama Hajjaj Official website
Life and career
Life and career
Osman Hajjaj was born in Amman, Jordan in 1973. He has worked for various daily newspapers in Jordan, such as Ad-Dustour and Al Ra'i, and weekly newspapers such as Al-Bilad and Al-Mar'aa; he worked for Al-Ittihad, the Emirati newspaper. Currently, he works in Al Arab Al Yawm (newspaper) and publishes his cartoons in several regional and international web-sites, such as Cagle Cartoons. and http: www.cartoonmovement.com/. Osama is the brother of Emad Hajjaj, who is also a cartoonist. The brothers are acutely aware of the challenges involved in publishing political cartoons in the Middle East. Both have been victims of intimidation, have received death threats on account of their satirical work, especially cartoons directed at ISIS. Osama claims that he was jailed for one of his cartoons.
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He is best known for his political cartoons and caricatures, many of which have appeared in texts and monographs and in popular magazines such as France's Charlie Hebdo.
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- 1.The Sunday Post.
- 2.Glover, R.W. and Tagliarin, D., Teaching Politics Beyond the Book: Film, Texts, and New Media in the Classroom, A & C Black, 2012, n.p. [E-text edition]
- 3.Osama Eid Hajjaj’s map.
- 4.The Cagle Post.
- 5.Osama Hajjaj - Cartoon Movement.
- 6.Maktabi, R., "Brothers' political cartoons break taboos," CNN: Middle East News, 5 April, 2011
- 7.9 moving tributes to Charlie Hebdo from Arabic-language cartoonists.
- 8.Gruber, C., "Fighting ISIS With A Pen," 26 June, Newsweek, 26 June, 2015,
- 9.Cartooning for Peace.
- 10.Winners of the 3rd edition World Humor Awards-2018 HUMORTOONS.
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