Handala
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Handala (), also Handhala, Hanzala or Hanthala, is a prominent national symbol and personification of the Palestinian people.
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Vinony's link graph records 167 inbound references to Handala, and connects out to Palestinians, Palestinian refugee and Arabic.
It sits within the topics Culture of Palestine, Fictional characters introduced in 1969 and Fictional Palestinian people.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Character.name
- Handala
- Character.image
- Handala.gif
- Character.alt
- Image of Handala
- Character.caption
- Handala, the Palestinian defiance symbol
- Character.first_major
- Al-Seyassah
- Character.first_date
- 13 July 1969
- Character.last_date
- 1987
- Character.creator
- Naji al-Ali
- Character.full_name
- حنظلة
- Character.gender
- Male
- Character.occupation
- 10 year old child
- Character.affiliation
- Justice, steadfastness (see sumud), poverty
- Character.origin
- Palestinian refugee
- Character.nationality
- Palestinian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- national symbol
- Named after
- Citrullus colocynthis
- Gender
- male
- Creator
- Naji al-Ali
- Has use
- graffiti
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- Commons category
- Handala
- symbol of
- Palestinians
- used by
- Iranian Green Movement
- has characteristic
- Palestinian refugee
- present in work
- West Bank Wall graffiti art
- date of birth
- 1967-06-05
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Early publication
- Symbolism
- Legacy
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
Handala (), also Handhala, Hanzala or Hanthala, is a prominent national symbol and personification of the Palestinian people.
The character was created in 1969 by political cartoonist Naji al-Ali, and first took its current form in 1973. Handala became the signature of Naji al-Ali's cartoons and remains an iconic symbol of Palestinian identity and defiance. The character has been described as "portraying war, resistance, and the Palestinian identity with astounding clarity".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Handala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.