Mohammad
Sabaaneh

Sabaaneh has received several awards and honors, including the Arab Cartoon Competition Award in 2013, first prize at the Estack International Cartoon Festival in 2017, and the EWK Award in 2024. Among his most recent accolades is the Broken Frontier Award in 2025, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of comics.

His artwork has been showcased in exhibitions worldwide, and he has lectured on political cartooning and its impact at prestigious universities across Europe and the Americas, including Columbia University, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Exeter.

His original works are preserved in the Prints and Photographs Division (Cartoon Section) of the Library of Congress, and Georgetown University has utilized his cartoons in its academic research. In 2017, he was invited to the United Nations Headquarters in New York as a prominent Palestinian intellectual and rising leader to represent his community on the international stage. During the 75th commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba at the United Nations in 2023, one of his murals was exhibited. His work was also displayed at the International Criminal Court in 2019.

In addition to his artistry, Sabaaneh operates as a cultural curator, having managed several major international exhibitions in Palestine:

• 2014: An exhibition at the Mahmoud Darwish Museum featuring 99 artists.
• 2018: "From the World to Jerusalem," featuring 155 artists.
• 2022: A tribute exhibition for the late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
• 2023: Curated the first collective exhibition for Palestinian comics.

His first book, White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine, was published in 2017 by Just World Books in the United States and Saqi Books in the United Kingdom, and his work was featured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2018. In 2021, he published his first comic book, Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, in the United States, which is recognized as the first Palestinian graphic novel. His third book, 30 Seconds from Gaza: Diary of Genocide, was published in 2024 in four different languages. He published his fourth book, Welcome to Hell: From the West Bank to Gaza, in 2026. To reach a global audience, his works have been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Albanian, German, Greek, Slovenian, and Arabic.

Furthermore, he co-curated the Palestinian Comics Exhibition at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in the UK in 2023, curated the Palestinian Comics Exhibition that toured several Spanish cities in 2025, and curated the Palestinian Comics Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 2026.