Ali Farzat Speaks Out On Syrian Uprising



The Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat granted an interview that ran on Al-Arabiya TV on August 4 that indicates that he stands firmly against the severe governmental crackdown on protesters, and that the heart of the movement is a wholly Syrian one without connection to outside political forces. He's also apparently doing cartoons about the deepening crisis, as he talks about one of them. Farazat, whose difficulties in making cartoons and publishing satirical magazines in Syria have been longstanding items of international concern, had earlier this year held his artistic brethren to a firm standard of not supporting the status quo or hedging to see which side came out ahead, declaring he was making a list of where various artists stood. His description of the plea made by government officials to not interfere in a crucial moment of history is worth the click-through all by itself.

I believe that's a cartoon about the ironies in using force that was published this Spring, and I think it directly relates to the Syrian authorities use of force in this crisis
 
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