Ali Dino

Ali Dino, also known as Ali Dino Bey 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 famous painter, and Ahmet. He became one of the most famous cartoonists in Greece, and was elected in the Greek Parliament for the Preveza prefecture in December 1915 [Greek legislative election|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.