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Lebanon Loses Pierre Sadek, Prominent Political Cartoonist

Lebanese caricaturist Pierre Sadek, a staunch defender of press freedom, passed away on April 24, reports Elie Hajj.
A Lebanese man looks at a caricature in the newspaper al-Balad showing anti-Syrian majority leader Saad Hariri and opposition leader Michel Aoun hugging and congratulating each other for the "election of a Lebanese president", in Beirut on April 01, 2008.  Lebanese newspapers today offered their readers a brief moment of wishful thinking by announcing in an April Fools message that the country's protracted political crisis was over and that a president had been elected.
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Lebanese political art suffered a severe blow with the death of Lebanon’s leading caricaturist, Pierre Sadek, on Wednesday morning, April 24, following a long struggle with cancer at the age of 75.

Sadek was in love with freedom, as a condition for artistic creativity. He clung to it in all the institutions for which he worked. Freedom is perhaps the most important thing that will remain of his memory. Among his journalist friends, Sadek was known for his spirit of constructive criticism and wry humor, which helped him build bridges of understanding and affection.

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