Pro-Palestinian Messaging in Children's Media During the Lebanese Civil War

This article examines the work of Dar al-Fata al-Arabi, a Beirut-based children's publishing house affiliated with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1970s and 1980s. Lebanon’s complex and protracted civil war, which saw an Israeli invasion of the country in 1982, forced Dar al-Fata’s relocation to Egypt. Pan-Arab and pro-Palestinian convictions were closely linked during the conflict and while Dar al-Fata sought to elevate revolutionary politics in the global south more generally, its pro-Palestinian media is the only instance of any contemporary Arab publisher directly addressing a nation of children.