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Profiled: Ali Ferzat in ReOrient Magazine

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Alan Gardner Published: September 17, 2013 Updated: September 17, 2026 1 minute 0 comments

ReOrient Magazine talks with Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat.

I dealt with the regime as though I was dealing with a venomous cobra. I had to attack them from a place where they couldn’t see me; so, I tackled issues that could have applied to them, but they could not say for certain that [the drawings were] definitely about them.