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Egypt's 1984 - Sada - 1 views

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egyptian media freedom

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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,
  • klweber2 on 09 Nov 14
     
    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.  
klweber2

Gallows Humor: Political Satire in Sisi's Egypt by Jonathan Guyer - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics - 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 
klweber2

Egypt's political cartoonists say they won't let Sisi off the hook | The National - 0 views

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egypt art satire revolution

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  • klweber2 on 29 Sep 14
     
    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.
klweber2

Jonathan Guyer on Twitter: "With dozens dead in bus crash, cartoonists for Al-Masry Al-Youm mourn the young martyrs in today's paper. #egypt http://t.co/zxrvRGQYBM" - 0 views

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cairo egypt art satire

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      klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
       
      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.
mpatel5

Egyptian student arrested carrying copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four - 0 views

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1984 Cairo-student Egypt al-youm

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  • mpatel5 on 11 Nov 14
     
    Orwellian fiction and reality appeared to blur into one on Sunday when reports suggested that an Egyptian undergraduate had been arrested for possessing a copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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