Caricaturist Yasser Hussein’s latest book Hawadity

Caricaturist Yasser Hussein’s latest book Hawadity tells 24 stories in words and illustrations

By Sherif Awad

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Yasser Hussein was one of thousands of school-age children with their noses in Egyptian editions of Mickey and Tintin magazines. At the age of 10, Hussein, who was born in 1972, started to put pen to paper, but it was only when he met artist Sayed Badawy that he began to understand that he was a caricaturist in the making. It was Badawy, a friend of the young boy’s father and a cartoonist with Al-Ahram, who first introduced Hussein to the term “caricature.”

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