02 ft tall, with an average width of 85 centimetres 33 in , and average thickness of 45 centimetres 18 in | He is barefooted like the refugee camp children, and he is an icon that protects me from making mistakes |
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During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, he was briefly detained by the occupying forces along with other residents of Ain al-Hilweh | At first, he was a Palestinian child, but his consciousness developed to have a national and then a global and human horizon |
Handala is not a fat, happy, relaxed, or pampered child.
16The statue holds a rock in its right hand and a booklet of drawings in the left hand | His hands are clasped behind his back as a sign of rejection at a time when solutions are presented to us the American way |
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Retrieved on 31 August 2010 | After his release he moved to , where he worked as a drawing instructor in the |
What is important is drawing situations and realities, not drawing presidents and leaders.