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Sophie Halaby
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Sophie Halaby
صوفي حلبي1905–1997
Born in Jerusalem on 26 June 1905, she spent the First World War with her family in Kiev, graduated from the Jerusalem Girls’ College in 1924 with four languages, and worked in the Mandate administration. Back from her studies in Paris on the eve of the revolt of 1936, she drew political cartoons rejecting the Balfour Declaration and the partition resolution, and after the revolt painted to preserve the land of Palestine as she had known it. She died in Jerusalem on 21 May 1997.
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