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March 8, 2012


Missed It: Lebanese Cartoonist Denies Removing Cartoon

According to a series of reports that first popped up in English at Beirut Spring, the Lebanese cartoonist Pierre Sadek (warning: that link plays synthesizer music) denies have taken down a mid-February cartoon of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah after supporters of that organization complained about it, I believe through Facebook. This report is one of a few to point out that the caricature is fairly benign both according to reasonable standards of just looking at the thing and certainly in the context of other artistic treatments of the public figure. This looks like one of the sites claiming the cartoon was taken down.
 
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