Ali Dino

Ali Dino (Greek: Αλή Ντίνο), also known as Ali Dino Bey (Albanian: Ali Bej Dino, Greek: Αλή Ντίνο Μπέης 1890-1938) was an Albanian cartoonist and a Member of the Greek Parliament.

Ali Dino
Ali Dino in 1930
Born	1890 Chios or Preveza, Ottoman Empire, modern day Greece
Died	1938 Athens, Greece
Occupation	cartoonist, politician
Nationality	Ottoman, Greek

Biography

Dino was born in Chios,[1][2] in the Vilayet of the Archipelago of the Ottoman Empire in 1890, to Rasih Dino. He was grandson of Abedin Dino, one of the main contributors of the Albanian independence. He became one of the most famous cartoonists in Greece, and was elected in the Greek Parliament twice for the Preveza prefecture.[3] Dino was the founder of the Party of the Chameria, that represented the local Cham Albanian community[3] as well as of the Greek Albanian Friendship Society. He died in Athens, Greece, in 1938.

Works

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  Self portrait
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  Caricature (1917) Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina
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  Manos (1919)

References

1. Fotos Giofylis, Ιστορία της νεοελληνικής τέχνης. Ζωγραφικής, γλυπτικής, χαρακτικής, αρχιτεκτονικής και διακοσμητικής, 1821-1941, Το Ελληνικό Βιβλίο, Athens 1962, Vol. 2, p. 447.
2. Εκπαιδευτική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια. Παγκόσμιο Βιογραφικό Λεξικό, Ekdotiki Athinon, Athens 1999, vol. 1, p. 172.
3. Mavrogordatos, George Th. Stillborn republic: social coalitions and party strategies in Greece, 1922-1936. University of California Press. California, 1983.