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Jonathan Guyer on Twitter: "In Egyptian state's flagship paper Ahram, cartoonist Anis A... - 0 views

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

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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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"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. 
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Mana Neyestani reflects in 'An Iranian Metamorphosis' : Columbia Journalism Review - 0 views

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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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Israel cartoon highlights troubled ties with US - 0 views

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  • sraeli political cartoon
  • troubled relationship between Israel and the United States.
  • against its message of a crisis in bilateral relations
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  • defending Israel's interests.
  • Obama administration
  • tense dynamic with Netanyahu,
  • ecturing tone toward the U.S. president.
  • klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
     
    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. 
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Egypt's 1984 - Sada - 1 views

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  • silence opposition voices, and consolidate control over the body politic
  • unprecedented authoritarian measures into law.
  • military tribunals to try civilians accused of offenses such as blocking roads or attacking public property,
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  • llows the military to assist police in guarding public facilities, including power stations, gas pipelines, railway stations, roads, and bridges.
  • NGOs in Egypt are bracing for a crackdown next month.
  • ew powers to expel students or fire professors suspected of “crimes that disturb the educational process”
  • at least eleven journalists are behind bars in Egypt,
  • professors and deans to choose their own leadership through elections.
  • media outlets also continue to come under fire from the government.
  • hauled before state security prosecutors and interrogated for fourteen hours after the paper declared it would publish investigation records into alleged fraud in the 2012 presidential election.
  • halting the publication of Al-Masry Al-Youm’s
  • veto their board decisions, and it imposes harsher penalties of up to three years in prison for such infractions as operating
  • privately owned daily newspapers signed a statement supporting the government in its war on terror and pledging not to criticize state institutions.
  • Privately-owned Al-Nahar station banned television host Mahmoud Saad from his nightly show,
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    This is an article from sada discussing how Egypt is comparative to the book "1984". In it is discusses how the government is not allowing for the media to criticize state institutions, and taking many journalists into custody.  
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Egypt chief editors pledge support for state institutions - Politics - Egypt - Ahram On... - 0 views

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  • stop publishing "statements undermining state institutions"
  • major deadly attacks on security forces in Sinai.
  • ejection of attempts to doubt state institutions or insult the army or police or judiciary in a way that would reflect negatively on these institutions' performance,"
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  • no longer publish statements "supportive of terrorism or that undermine state institutions directly or indirectly."
  • support" for all procedures the government
  • "total confidence" in state institutions
  • 30 security forces were killed in two attacks
  • media
  • essential role against any attempts at undermining state policies. 
  • klweber2 on 09 Nov 14
     
    This is an article from ahramonline that discusses how newspapers are supporting the government and censoring certain topics. This article briefly illustrates the restrictions on freedom of speech in Egypt. 
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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. 
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An Interview with Omar Khouri | Qifa Nabki - 0 views

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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,
  • 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;
  • shatter the boundaries of my imagination to this day.
  • freedoms of painting.
  • ivision between Media Arts and the Higher Arts.
  • comics were not only children’s entertainment,
  • 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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Satire: Mocking news, lampooning power - Listening Post - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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      Compares different satirical cartoonists across the world with an emphasis on Egypt. It specifically talks about how Egypt is making more of an impact to the people throughout the country. 
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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.
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Jonathan Guyer (@mideastXmidwest) | Twitter - 0 views

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    Jonathan Guyer is a Cairo based scholar who is currently looking into the comic satire used throughout Egypt.
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Egypt's political cartoonists say they won't let Sisi off the hook | The National - 0 views

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    This article describe how cartoonists are the first to depict the new president, Abdel Sisi, and the important role cartoonists have in society. The main cartoonists the article follows are Mohamed Anwar and Andeel who work for Al-Masry Al-Youm in 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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  • 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 
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Egypt's powerful street art packs a punch - 2 views

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  • best examples
  • street art movement that has flourished since the protests against Mubarak began.
  • artists were forged in the fire
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  • 8-day demonstrations against Mubarak in early 2011
  • mural
  • talk about the walls of Egypt being under an ‘art attack’.”
  • mural of a large tank aiming its cannon at a boy on a bicycle
  • painting slogans and murals
  • esponse to events
  • panda bear
  • ongoing mayhem
  • pacifist rebuke to the violence
  • engulfed Egypt since 2011.
  • integrated part
  • struggle for freedom.
  • klweber2 on 22 Sep 14
     
    This article from BBC showcases how Egyptian street art is a new voice among Egyptian protestors. In response to events, artists have filled the walls with murals and slogans in response to events such as the Maspero Massacre in 2011. Some of the reoccurring images are of a tank aiming its cannon at a boy on a bicycle carrying bread on his head as well as a melancholy panda. Other artists have integrated some of Egypt's history in their murals showcasing Egyptian pride amongst the rebellion.
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