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Publisher pushes Ba''ath bounds; State''s ultimatum, control over paper''s distribution put satirist in Catch-22.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 13-AUG-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Publisher pushes Ba''ath bounds; State''s ultimatum, control over paper''s distribution put satirist in Catch-22.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: MIDDLE EAST)

Article Excerpt
Byline: David Hirst, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

DAMASCUS, Syria - Ali Farzat is a cartoonist of international repute whose work appears in the Paris daily Le Monde, among other places.

He has won many an award. Last year, it was the Netherlands' Prince Claus prize for cartoons with a "human content." Before that, Switzerland's International Mourg Committee named him as one of the five most important cartoonists in the world.

But Mr. Farzat is without official honor in his own country.

Addomari, the Damascus satirical weekly that he publishes, mounted an unprecedented challenge this month to authorities who seem bent on silencing him and the renascent spirit of free speech that he exemplifies.

Mr. Farzat founded Addomari, or the "Lamplighter," during the Damascus Spring, the cautious liberalization that followed the death in 2000 of President Hafez Assad, who had ruled with an iron...

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