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‘Art is continuous resistance’: Sudanese cartoonist draws to bring hope, truth

‘Art is continuous resistance’: Sudanese cartoonist draws to bring hope, truth

IN his living room in Norway, while the TV broadcasts pictures of the violence back home in Khartoum, Khalid Albaih does what he has become known for in the Middle East and beyond: draw cartoons. His latest, entitled The Dog Fight, depicts the two main Sudanese foes, army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, as dogs fighting over a piece of meat in the shape of Sudan. "Art is needed in times like this because it is important to show people art is about hope, art is about showing there is a different way to talk…
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