Hakam al Waheb

Hakam al Waheb (Hama, 1975) lives in Saudi Arabia. He is an artist and a cre- ative director for an advertising agency. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, at the University of Damascus from 1996 to 1999. His style is diverse and he prefers not to limit himself to one school or genre, but over the past five years he has focused more on political cartoons, to try and explain the suffering of the Syrian people un- der the Assad regime in an artistic way. “I dream of one day going back to my love- ly home in Syria.”