Published : 30-01-2018
The caricature artist,Hany Abbas, from Yarmouk camp, has launched his first book ‘A Fish in Noah’s Boat,’ in coordination with the Maysaloon House for Printing, Distribution and Publishing.
The book discusses the most prominent stages of his life. It is pided into three chapters, which highlight the different aspects of what he has witnessed through the ongoing events in Syria. In the first chapter, titled “Cold in Hell,” he documented what he saw and heard of stories in the beginning of the war in Syria, in addition to the drawings he drew during that time. In the second chapter, which he named “Extinguishing the Darkness,” he discussed the regime’s bombardments and siege, the catastrophic displacements, and the drawings placed by his fingerprints during that stage.
The third chapter, which the author named the book after, ‘A Fish in Noah’s Boat,’ documents the daily stories of asylum and migration, with a number of drawings that represent the stories.
About his book ‘A Fish in Noah’s Boat,’ Noah says: “The book is my first and final prose,” indicating that many of the things he wrote and drew throughout the past six years, had to be written in a book, as an eyewitness account of what happened and continues to occur in Syria and the world.
Hany Abbas is a Palestinian refugee who was born in Yarmouk camp-Damascus in 1977. He is a caricature artist in a number of Arab and International newspapers and has held exhibitions in many Arab and foreign countries.
He has won a number of international and local prizes and was a jury member for a number of Arab and international caricature festivals. Some of the most prominent awards he received are the Cartoonist Journalist Award for Courage for 2014 in Geneva, World Press Freedom Award Doha 2013, three times winner of the Professional Painters' Award in Syria, as well as honorary and esteemed awards from several international festivals.
In addition to his membership in the jury of the Syrian International Cartoon Festival for three times, the First Naji Al Ali Festival, Gaza’s International Cartoon Festival, the "Badil" Cartoon Festival and he works as a teacher of arts and cartoons at the Geneva International School.
The caricature artist,Hany Abbas, from Yarmouk camp, has launched his first book ‘A Fish in Noah’s Boat,’ in coordination with the Maysaloon House for Printing, Distribution and Publishing.
The book discusses the most prominent stages of his life. It is pided into three chapters, which highlight the different aspects of what he has witnessed through the ongoing events in Syria. In the first chapter, titled “Cold in Hell,” he documented what he saw and heard of stories in the beginning of the war in Syria, in addition to the drawings he drew during that time. In the second chapter, which he named “Extinguishing the Darkness,” he discussed the regime’s bombardments and siege, the catastrophic displacements, and the drawings placed by his fingerprints during that stage.
The third chapter, which the author named the book after, ‘A Fish in Noah’s Boat,’ documents the daily stories of asylum and migration, with a number of drawings that represent the stories.
About his book ‘A Fish in Noah’s Boat,’ Noah says: “The book is my first and final prose,” indicating that many of the things he wrote and drew throughout the past six years, had to be written in a book, as an eyewitness account of what happened and continues to occur in Syria and the world.
Hany Abbas is a Palestinian refugee who was born in Yarmouk camp-Damascus in 1977. He is a caricature artist in a number of Arab and International newspapers and has held exhibitions in many Arab and foreign countries.
He has won a number of international and local prizes and was a jury member for a number of Arab and international caricature festivals. Some of the most prominent awards he received are the Cartoonist Journalist Award for Courage for 2014 in Geneva, World Press Freedom Award Doha 2013, three times winner of the Professional Painters' Award in Syria, as well as honorary and esteemed awards from several international festivals.
In addition to his membership in the jury of the Syrian International Cartoon Festival for three times, the First Naji Al Ali Festival, Gaza’s International Cartoon Festival, the "Badil" Cartoon Festival and he works as a teacher of arts and cartoons at the Geneva International School.
