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New Banksy Mural Depicts Apple's Steve Jobs As Syrian Migrant

PARIS (CBS/AP) — Street artist Banksy has taken on the migrant crisis in a new mural depicting Apple's Steve Jobs at a Syrian migrant camp in France.

The elusive graffiti artist has depicted the late Apple guru Steve Jobs — whose biological father was from Syria — carrying a black garbage bag and an early model of the Macintosh computer.

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This picture taken on December 12, 2015 shows a street art graffiti representing Steve Jobs, founder and late CEO of Apple, by elusive British artist Banksy at the migrant camp known as the "Jungle" in Calais, northern France. (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)

The artist best known for his subversive street art has never disclosed his identity. His publicist, Jo Brooks, confirmed Saturday that the work found at the encampment in Calais is genuine.

Jobs was adopted. His biographer, Walter Isaacson, has described the computer genius' biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali, as a graduate student who came from a prominent family and studied in the United States.

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