Article: An artist signs off ... Adel Darwish says goodbye to friend and former colleague, the journalist and cartoonist Mahmoud Kahil. (Mosaic).

A few months before he won the Democratic Party nomination for the 1992 presidential election, Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas was given a cartoon that had been published in the Saudi daily Arab News a few days earlier. It depicted the democrat's presidential candidate as a genie struggling through the neck of a bottle to grab hold of elusive American politics.

"This cartoonist is a genius," Governor Clinton told veteran Iranian journalist Amir Tahiri, who presented him with the drawing during their interview, "he is predicting the future." Within nine months, Governor Clinton had won the election to become President of the United States, a position he held for ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!