Hassan Manassrah

Hassan is a visual artist, illustrator, and comic creator. He studied interior design at al Balqa Applied University and painting at The Jordanian Fine Art Center. He also studied printmaking as a courses at the Jordanian Fine Art Museum where he concentrated on lithography, etching zinc and copper, and lino-cut and mono-prints. From 2004 to 2010, he worked as Assistant Art Director for the animated cartoon series Pink Panther & Pals and other cartoon series . Since 2010, he has illustrated around 25 children books. In 2014, the book Why Not? was shortlisted for the Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature for best illustration and made the White Ravens list , In 2016, he won an Etisalat Award for best illustration for the Palestinian edition of The Blue Pool of Questions.