[MGSA-L] THIS COMING MONDAY: Talk on Arab Comics and Cultural Politics, March 5, 4:30pm

[Roilos, Panagiotis]

Dear all,


I would like to invite you to the following event.


Sincerely,

Panagiotis Roilos

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Panagiotis Roilos
George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature
Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

"A Secret History of Arab Comics: The Case of the Egyptian Newspaper Al-Dostour During Mubarak's Twilight"

Jonathan Guyer, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Independent Journalist.

Monday, March 5, 2018, 4:30pm to 6:30pm

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

Abstract:

Cartooning has long been a pillar of the public discourse in Egypt. Especially during authoritarian times, cartooning has often been where political critique is loudest, or most daring. But the inherently ironic logic of cartooning means that the volume and barb of this critique is never straightforward. In fact, its very meaning derives from the fact that it tacks closely—and ambiguously—to red lines. In Egypt, a prohibition on “insulting” the president had long restricted the press and by extension cartoonists. But in the mid-2000s, a rag-tag group of cartoonists began to draw President Hosni Mubarak.

Based on archival research and interviews with cartoonists who worked together at the opposition weekly newspaper Al-Dostour, I will focus on illustrated attacks on political authority, notably Mubarak, in five years leading up to of the 2011 uprising. During this period, they would also launch revolutionary comics publications (and garner cult followings). Today these cartoonists, along with others in Cairo and Arab capitals, constitute an emergent Arab alternative comics (or alt-comix) movement. Influenced by little-known, radical Arab cartoonists from the past half-century, these cartoonists have persevered as trenchant critics amid successive, repressive regimes.

Biography:

Jonathan Guyer is a journalist focused on the politics of art and literature in the Middle East. He is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a contributing editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. He has written for the Art Newspaper, Guernica, Harper’s, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Painters, Le Monde diplomatique, New Yorker, New York Review Daily, New York Times, Paris Review, and Rolling Stone, among others. His research has been supported by fellowships from Fulbright (2012–2013) and the Institute of Current World Affairs (2015–2017). He blogs at Oum Cartoon<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__oumcartoon.tumblr.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=kQhyxcCOJ5pbHXm3U222khZ5k-nobB6p8LSg5N9ZC0o&m=6yhPYwvgPixyxd-_Tg3MblvgDsgkWRHBcX9c0srLCnM&s=vfgfAeVSjCJPpvS0NKD3lhtvFUrytpepWF8RtKT2ZAM&e=> and tweets: @mideastXmidwest.

https://wcfia.harvard.edu/event/cultural-politics-interdisciplinary-perspectives-3-5-18





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