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klweber2

Letters from the Editors Cairo-based... - Oum Cartoon أم كرتون - 0 views

  • hat mourning strip is broadcast on television screens, as seen above, to evoke collective anguish.
  • lack line gags the news, coming to life and restricting the anchor’s speech.
  • memorialize freedom of expression, inserting that dark strip above a framed picture that reads, “Freedom,”
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  • eacting to the Egyptian media’s support for the state. 
  • ree speech can become a causality.
  • hmed Okasha
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    This is another cartoon from Oum Cartoon of a cartoon illustrating the current issue of censorship in Egypt. The cartoon is a reaction of how the media is now supporting the government and how it will not demean them.  
klweber2

Israel cartoon highlights troubled ties with US - 0 views

  • sraeli political cartoon
  • troubled relationship between Israel and the United States.
  • against its message of a crisis in bilateral relations
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  • tense dynamic with Netanyahu,
  • Obama administration
  • defending Israel's interests.
  • ecturing tone toward the U.S. president.
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    This is an article about an Israeli political cartoon that depicts an Israeli plane flying towards a US tower. The article discusses how this is very thoughtless on the Israeli side and does't understand the magnitude of 9/11. 
micklethwait

ISIS Barber "Pardon me, chief… has my head rolled... - Oum Cartoon أم كرتون - 3 views

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    A blog post from Oum Cartoon questioning an Egyptian cartoon on ISIS executions. Briefly questions the importance of the cartoon and its symbolism.
klweber2

Jonathan Guyer on Twitter: "In Egypt's flagship state newspaper Al-Ahram, Anis El-Deeb ... - 0 views

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      This cartoon expresses the rocky slope Obama is taking with forming alliance with Islamist militants in the eyes of Egyptians. 
klweber2

"Media Freedom: Closed Until Further Notice" A... - Oum Cartoon أم كرتون - 0 views

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      A cartoon depicting the current censorship debate in Egypt. Seems to emphasize how the current lack of freedom of speech is suppressing the people of Egypt and how this is goes against what they want. 
klweber2

Jonathan Guyer on Twitter: "With dozens dead in bus crash, cartoonists for Al-Masry Al-... - 0 views

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      This cartoon expresses the remorse of a deadly bus crash that killed many innocent children. It expresses how these killings are not some by standard and that the people in Egypt mourn those that have died in the mist of the current issues.  
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    Jonathan Guyer is a Cairo based scholar who is currently looking into the comic satire used throughout Egypt.
klweber2

Jonathan Guyer on Twitter: "Egyptian illustrator Walid Taher in today's Al-Shorouk, the... - 0 views

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      This cartoon appears to be making a statement on Egyptian censorship. Everything that appears on the media may seem fine, but in reality those remarks are just enforced by the government. A remark on freedom of speech. 
klweber2

Gallows Humor: Political Satire in Sisi's Egypt by Jonathan Guyer - Guernica / A Magazi... - 0 views

  • Illustrators capture the everyday challenges Egyptians face,
  • illiterate
  • transcending cultural, class-based, and generational barriers.
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  • hift the narrative
  • not just
  • reach a wide audience
  • outine struggles of life in Cairo.
  • hree political factions
  • epresent Egypt speak with one voice.
  • ndeel and Anwa
  • launched an alt-comics zine called Tok Tok,
  • Egyptian millennials.
  • his powerlessness and his complicity in state-sponsored violence.
  • “‘This is a stupid regime that is in control right now,’”
  • cartoons
  • Morsi overstepped
  • We all knew this was going to happen,”
  • everyone realized that the army was planning something.”
  • Mocking the armed forces has been taboo
  • since
  • President Gamal Abdul Nasser
  • Andeel wrote about the anthem for Mada Masr,
  • military was asked by the people to rise up against Morsi.
  • implies
  • “Bless your hands”
  • 77-year-old Moustafa Hussein serve
  • baseline for the nationalist narrative.
  • executive stained with blood
  • youth of the revolution have come to support a new authoritarianism.
  • underlining
  • “I would have had to very intensely water down my language, be way more patient and pragmatic to deliver my message.”
  • dozens of cartoons
  • ortraying the Muslim Brotherhood as violent, activating the terrorist trope
  • “The most important thing to me are regular people,”
  • “Winter After the Protest Law.”
  • everyone is at risk when authorities arbitrarily crack down on public demonstrations.
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    This article follows a cartoonist from Al-Masry Al-Youm a private newspaper in Egypt 
micklethwait

» Here's a typical Hamas hiding place for their weapons - 0 views

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    That's a nice cartoon. What about real evidence to support the "human shield" canard?
jordanbrown16

Google Image Result for http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gXofDc0zjQM/TrNv2cE_DSI/AAAAAAAADdA/_... - 4 views

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    I found this political cartoon that I think illustrates the United States and Israel's concerns, regarding Iran's nuclear program.
mwrightc

Meet 'Average Mohamed', the gas station manager fighting Isis | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Mohamed Ahmed is fighting ISIS in his own way by making anti-ISIS cartoons, and because of this he is now receiving death threats from ISIS members. His home town of Minneapolis is a huge ISIS recruiting station for ISIS since the largest Somali population in the US is there.
ijones3

A change in Egyptian Culture? - 1 views

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    This is a short article by the New Yorker but it explains that the culture has started to change in Egypt. This culture has changed by this new generation expressing themselves through music, theater, art, political cartoons and especially graffiti.
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