Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
30 July - 5 August 1998
Issue No.388
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Hussein

King Hussein

King Hussein of Jordan is going through difficult times, and my pen dragged across the paper as I tried to draw him. This caricature is not meant to be amusing, or even witty: the king's face, stoic and impassive in his fight against illness, reminded me of a granite cliff, eroded in places, the jutting, craggy features sharpened by pain and worry.

   By George Bahgory