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An Interview with Omar Khouri | Qifa Nabki - 0 views

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arab art satire cartoon interview

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  • politics
  • equated with war.
  • my refusal to engage in any political act or discussion was in itself a political statement.
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  • censorship and the separation of religion from the state,
  • political figures in this context, juxtaposed with the other subjects in this series,
  • depoliticize their image and highlight the human aspect of their nature
  • personalities that one can connect with on a more basic level regardless of their political views.
  • French comics master Moebius,
  • comics were not only children’s entertainment,
  • shatter the boundaries of my imagination to this day.
  • freedoms of painting.
  • ivision between Media Arts and the Higher Arts.
  • English comics author Alan Moore, whose masterpiece Watchmen blew my mind wide open to the idea that comics could be as powerful and insightful as any other art form when dealing with the depths of the human soul;
  • Another very difficult obstacle is censorship.
  • extreme conservatism of the surrounding countries
  • Arab art
  • very positive side effect of a horrible situation,
  • klweber2 on 09 Nov 14
     
    An interview with Omar Khouri, a political artist/cartoonist. The interview goes in depth of what Khouri mainly draws/paints and where his inspirations come from. 
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Mana Neyestani reflects in 'An Iranian Metamorphosis' : Columbia Journalism Review - 0 views

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iranian cartoon media

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  • best-known political cartoonists,
  • was jailed in 2006 for a comic
  • Neyestani and his editor ended up in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison.
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  • he fled.
  • Iranian government coerces its press
  • “I was just waiting for my destiny to happen to me.”
  • “The whole point of life is coping with this destiny and trying to change it,”
  • klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
     
    This is an article from the Columbia Journalism Review discussing about a popular illustrator Mana Neyestani. In the article, Neyestani talks about his career in Iran as a comic illustrator and how it landed him in jail. This correlates to the issues that are currently happening in Egypt  
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Jonathan Guyer (@mideastXmidwest) | Twitter - 0 views

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cairo egypt art satire

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  • klweber2 on 05 Oct 14
     
    Jonathan Guyer is a Cairo based scholar who is currently looking into the comic satire used throughout Egypt.
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Gallows Humor: Political Satire in Sisi's Egypt by Jonathan Guyer - Guernica / A Magazi... - 0 views

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egypt art satire revolution

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  • 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.
  • klweber2 on 29 Sep 14
     
    This article follows a cartoonist from Al-Masry Al-Youm a private newspaper in Egypt 
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Jonathan Guyer on Twitter: "With dozens dead in bus crash, cartoonists for Al-Masry Al-... - 0 views

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cairo egypt art satire

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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.  
  • klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
     
    Jonathan Guyer is a Cairo based scholar who is currently looking into the comic satire used throughout Egypt.
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Letters from the Editors Cairo-based... - Oum Cartoon أم كرتون - 0 views

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egypt satire cartoon media

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  • 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
  • klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
     
    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.  
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