A Child in Palestine (2009 Edition) Tara O'Connor Benny can’t sleep without his

Benny can’t sleep without his favorite pirate hat—and he left it inside the spooky backyard playhouse

though also a world where adults are literally prisoners of their own fortresses

and most obsessively

hailed as a masterpiece in the leading journals of both the left and the right

A Child in Palestine (2009 Edition) Tara O'Connor Benny can’t sleep without hisBy Naji al Ali. Published by Verso. Softcover, 117 pages, B&W, 2009 (originally published 1970 1987) Naji al Ali grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the late 1950s. Early the following decade he left for Kuwait, embarking on a thirty year career that would see his cartoons published daily in newspapers from