I Saw Ramallah

BY MLYNXQUALEYonJULY 22, 2015 In Mourid Barghouti’s seminal memoir, I Saw Ramallah, he writes about the loss of his private days — namely his birthday and his anniversary — as author Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated on the date of the first, and cartoonist Naji al-Ali on the second: From I Saw Ramallah: I got to know Naji in 1970 in Kuwait. He was the cartoonist of al-Siyasanewspaper, and I used to spend some evenings in his small office.