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Khalid Albaih and Maryam al-Khasawneh

Khalid Albaih is a creative cultural producer who plans, designs, organizes, and manages artistic projects that have a cultural impact on the public that will interact with them. He has also been a political cartoonist since 2011, most notably ‘I Stand with Cap’ in 2016. He publishes his cartoons on social media under “Khartoon!,” a wordplay on cartoon and Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. 

He has published widely in international publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, PRI, NPR, and BBC. In addition, Albaih has published his written social and political commentary in publications such as The Guardian, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Khalid has been hosted in various TV shows and news programs around the world as a trusted commentator on political events around the world. You can follow his work on Instagram @Khalidalbaih.

Maryam al-Khasawneh is a historian from Jordan. She received her MA in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. She is currently working on publishing her thesis entitled ‘the Arab reaction to the Ottoman call to arms 1908-1914’. She is also working on launching an online and printed, bi-lingual magazine entitled Balsam Magazine, which is dedicated to food anthropology, agriculture and the celebrating communities in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked with several archives, including photo archives, dedicated to the Middle East throughout the region and in Europe, namely the National Archives in the UK, the Basbakanlik (Ottoman state Archives) in Turkey, and several private family archives in Jordan and Palestine.

ARTICLES BY Khalid Albaih and Maryam al-Khasawneh

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    In the post-colonial Arab world, dictatorships have kept the people on their knees for decades, that is until the popular Arab uprisings of 2011. As a political cartoonist, the Arab uprisings changed my life. They put me and many of my fellow activists on a track toward socially-engaged work, wh..