Ali Farzat

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ali Farzat
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	Jun 22, 1951(1951-06-22)
Age	73
Birthplace	Syria
Country	Syria
Horoscope	Cancer

Ali Farzat Biography

Ali Farzat is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on June 22, 1951 in Syria, Syria. Syrian political cartoonist who was known to be Head of the Arab Cartoonists’ Association.

He once received a death threat from Saddam Hussein due to one of his 1989 exhibitions.

Ali Farzat or Ali Ferzat (Arabic: علي فرزات ‎; born 22 June 1951) is a Syrian political cartoonist. He has published more than 15,000 caricatures in Syrian, Arab and international newspapers. He serves as the head of the Arab Cartoonists’ Association. In 2011 he received Sakharov Prize for peace. Farzat was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2012.

Farzat met Syrian president Bashar al-Assad prior to his presidency in 1996. According to Farzat, “He [Bashar] actually laughed at some of the cartoons—specifically at those targeting security personnel—he had a bunch of them with him and he turned to them and said: ‘Hey, he is making fun of you. What do you think?” Afterward the two developed a friendship. In December 2000 Farzat started publishing al-Domari (“The Lamplighter”), which was the first independent periodical in Syria since the Baath Party came to power in 1963. The newspaper was based on political satire and styled in a similar way to the French weekly Le Canard enchaîné. The first issue of the paper came out in February 2001 and the entire 50,000 copies were sold in less than four hours. In 2002, he won the prestigious Dutch Prince Claus Award for “achievement in culture and development”. By 2003, however, frequent government censorship and lack of funds forced Farzat to close down al-Domari. He has been called “one of the most famous cultural figures in the Arab world”. In December 2012, Farzat was awarded Gebran Tueni prize in Lebanon.

He was born and raised in Hama, Syria.

Ali Farzat Net Worth

Ali Farzat is one of the richest Cartoonist from Syria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ali Farzat 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started drawing caricatures for the local newspaper, al-Thawra, in 1969.

He won first prize in 1980 at the Intergraphic International Festival.

Farzat was born and raised in the city of Hama, in central Syria on 22 June

1951. At the age of 12 he started publishing drawings professionally on the front pages of al-Ayyam newspaper, shortly before it was banned by the ruling Baath Party. In 1969 he began drawing caricatures for the state-run daily, al- Thawra. He enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University in 1970, and left before graduating in 1973. In the mid-1970s he moved to another government controlled daily, Tishreen, where his cartoons appeared every day. International recognition followed in 1980 when he won the first prize at the Intergraphic International Festival in Berlin, Germany, and his drawings began to appear in the French newspaper Le Monde. His exhibition in 1989 at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France led to a death threat from Saddam Hussein, and a ban from Iraq, Jordan and Libya. The drawing that brought about the most controversy was called The General and the Decorations which showed a general handing out military decorations instead of food to a hungry Arab citizen.

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Ali Ranked on the list of most popular Cartoonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Syria. Ali Farzat celebrates birthday on June 22 of every year.