{"id":20188,"date":"2012-06-10T10:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T06:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=20188"},"modified":"2012-06-10T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T06:21:59","slug":"the-cartoonish-thoughts-of-a-young-brown-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/the-cartoonish-thoughts-of-a-young-brown-man\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Cartoonish Thoughts of a Young Brown Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/06\/the-cartoonish-thoughts-of-a-young-brown-man\/husam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20189\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20189\" title=\"husam\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/husam-e1339309280853.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/husam-e1339309280853.jpg 635w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/husam-e1339309280853-634x333.jpg 634w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/husam-e1339309280853-570x300.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend Husam Zakharia is a Palestinian comic artist living in California. Through his website<a href=\"http:\/\/pandaammonia.tumblr.com\/\">\u00a0&#8220;the cartoonish inner thoughts of a young brown man,&#8221;<\/a>Husam takes on Israeli and American policies, as well as the Arab Spring and consumerism. His online collection includes a few pieces themed around Palestinian hunger strikers. And with Mahmoud Sarsak and Akram Rekhawi carrying on the plight for detainee rights through 81 and 57 days of fast, respectively, I thought it relevant to post a few.<\/p>\n<h5><a title=\"HZ shalabi\" href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/images\/2012\/06\/HZ.shalabi.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/images\/2012\/06\/600\/HZ.shalabi.jpg\" alt=\"HZ shalabi\" width=\"600\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHana Shalabi and Land Day. (Image: Husam Zakharia)<\/h5>\n<h5><a title=\"HZ adnan\" href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/images\/2012\/06\/HZ.adnan.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/images\/2012\/06\/600\/HZ.adnan.jpg\" alt=\"HZ adnan\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDay 62. (Image: Husam Zakharia)<\/h5>\n<h5><a title=\"HZ us wars\" href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/images\/2012\/06\/HZ.us.wars.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[slideshow]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/images\/2012\/06\/600\/HZ.us.wars.jpg\" alt=\"HZ us wars\" width=\"600\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAddicted. (Image: Husam Zakharia)<\/h5>\n<h5><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/images\/2012\/06\/HZ.erasure.jpg\" alt=\"HZ erasure\" width=\"500\" height=\"647\" \/><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALISON DEGER, MONDOWEISS: His sketches are striking and pack a political punch. Let me introduce you to Husam Zakharia.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":20189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,154,692,482,5,135],"tags":[2404,1439,18284,13126,13252,18297,18302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}