Political Cartoons in the Middle East

by Fatma MÃÂÂge GÃÂÂÃÂÂek (Editor)

Overview

The imagery of political cartoons provides a unique yet under-studied insight into how Middle Eastern societies think. By combining the indigenous comic tradition of shadow plays with the imported Western print form, and by drawing on both visual and verbal narratives, Middle Eastern political cartoons free the imagination, challenge the intellect, and resist state domination.

The essays in this collection focus on the multiple cultural spaces that political cartoons in the Middle East create across societies. Palmira Brummett analyzes the images of women in Ottoman cartoons, while Shiva Balaghi studies issues of nationalism in caricatures from Qajar Iranian newspapers. Ayhan Akman concentrates on the issue of modernity in Turkish cartoons during the 1930-1975 period. Mohamed-Salah Omri takes up the issue of war and cartoons as he comments on the politicization of Tunisian cartoons during the Gulf War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558761575
Publisher:	Wiener, Markus Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/27/2019
Series:	Princeton Series on the Middle East
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan) is the author of three books, including The Rise of Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change. Her essay "The Legal Recourse of Minorities in History: Eighteenth-Century Appeals to the Islamic Court of Galata" was featured in Minorities in the Ottoman Empire (also available from Markus Wiener).

Table of Contents

Political Cartoons as a Site of Representation and Resistance in the Middle East

New Women and Old Nag: Images of Women in the Ottoman Cartoon Space

Political Culture in the Iranian Revolution of 1906 and the Cartoons of Kashkul

From Cultural Schizophrenia to Modernist Binarism: Cartoons and Identities in Turkey (1930–1975)

“Gulf Laughter Break”: Cartoons in Tunisia During the Gulf Conflict

Editorial Reviews

"Göçek has assembled a provocative group of essays ... useful to students of Middle East[ern] history of all stages. Each article offers engaging illustrations of the interplay between material culture and history, and of the relationship between governments and their citizens during times of crisis and transition." -- MESA Bulletin

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