Malik Nejer

Art, Saudi 8 Comments

A couple of months ago I came across a video on YouTube called “the real reason for Jeddah’s crisis” a very funny and well made animation made by a young man called “Malik Nejer”

Last week I finally got to see Malik and his friends hanging out in a ten minute video they made, basically it was about them having nothing to do and filming it, I liked the part where they were told at some location that they should not film anything with a soul (a belief practiced by ultra orthodox practitioners of many religions, ex 1 and 2) and then he, makes some gestures of utter disbelief and later says it is not like we are in “1985″… That made me feel so old, I remember 1985, my cousins and I had Michael Jackson’s thriller on rewind as we tried to copy all the dance moves :)

Anyhow, Malik is a self taught graphical designer who has been drawing ever since he was a little boy, according to him he started drawing on walls since he was five, and now he uses a Mac to do all his art. He also has worked for international graphical design companies, and he also picked up English by himself.

 

Malik is a very talented artist, and has a sense of patriotism that is self evident and also professed through his work, and while many write for change, a picture is worth a thousand words, and a motion picture is worth even more than that as it has the ability to reach a wider audience and leaves little for interpretation since the message is delivered all the way through.

Checkout his channel on YouTube, it contains other works of his.

Malik has been recently interviewed on Alarabiya (the interview is included in his channel) and I think they offered him a job.

My best wishes to you Malik, good job, and good luck.

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