Ali Dino

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

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.

Biography

Dino was born in Chios, 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. His family were from Preveza, Chameria. His siblings were Leyla Dino Ileri, Abidin Dino (named after his grandfather Abedin) famous painter, and Ahmet (named after his great grandfather Ahmed Dino). He became one of the most famous cartoonists in Greece, and was elected in the Greek Parliament for the Preveza prefecture in 1915. Dino later founded the Party of the Chameria, that represented the local Cham Albanian community 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)