Khalid Albaih

Biography

Cartoonist and satirist Khalid Albaih produces work for both social media and print publications. Attracting a wide international audience, his cartoons comment on a variety of social and political issues.

Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha (2016); Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, USA (2015); McGill University, Montreal (2014) and Edge of Arabia, London (2013). His work was also shown in the group exhibitions do it بالعربي at the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2016) and RE:BELLION // RE:LIGION // RE:FORM - Artistic Action in Times of Crisis at the Max Pechstein Museum, Zwickau, Germany (2015).

Albaih’s cartoons appear on social media under the name Khartoon!, word play on ‘cartoon’ and ‘Khartoum’, the capital of Sudan. His cartoons have also been published by The Atlantic, PRI and NPR and his social and political commentary by The Guardian and Al Jazeera.

He has a bachelor’s degree in interior design engineering from the Ajman University of Science and Technology, UAE. He has been chosen as the 2016 Human Rights Fellow at the Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights, Colby College, Waterville, US.

Albaih was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1980. He currently lives and works in Doha.