Arafat cartoon exhibit causes uproar in Palestine

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Al-Araby

The Yasser Arafat Foundation announced on Monday the removal of all cartoons from a controversial exhibition it had organised in Ramallah. The exhibition, titled “Palestine and Yasser Arafat”, was inaugurated on Sunday by Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Ishtayeh at the Yasser Arafat Museum. It included 104 artists from some 43 countries and some 350 works and was described as showing “solidarity with Palestine and the roots of Yasser Arafat’s memory in the international community”. The artworks represent the artists’ depictions of Yasser Arafat “not the reality of who he was”, the curators…

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