Translating Egypt’s Political Cartoons
Jonathan Guyer Political cartoons present a daily snapshot of the gut reactions to current political and social issues. With each Egyptian newspaper publishing about five cartoons daily – and some papers up to a dozen – a range of perspectives is conveyed through punchy imagery and text penned in Egyptian colloquial Arabic. Since the 2011 uprising, a new cartoon renaissance
» Read moreCairoComix: Excavating the political
12 October 2015, Mada Masr By Jonathan Guyer “All comics are political,” wrote Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas in their seminal 1994 study Arab Comic Strips. But whether for children or adults, the forms of political expression in comics are never straightforward. Translated editions of Superman project cultural imperialism as well as the human need for heroes and villains. A comic advertising Stella beer
» Read moreIraqi academics targeted in murder spree
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robert Fisk | The Independent | 14 July 2004 The Mongols stained the Tigris black with the ink of the Iraqi books they destroyed. Today’s Mongols prefer to destroy the Iraqi teachers of books. Since the Anglo-American invasion, they have murdered at least 13 academics at the University of Baghdad alone and countless others
» Read moreYork (University) President Lorna Marsden under fire for her abuse of power!
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Committee for Free Speech at York University | 30 May 2004 York University President Lorna Marsden is under fire from all directions for her decision to banish student activist and journalist Daniel Freeman-Maloy from campus for three years. Freeman-Maloy’s expulsion was meant to send a message: challenge my administration’s authority, and you will suffer
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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Committee for Free Speech at York University | Defend Free Speech at York University | 3 May 2004 To All Concerned Community Members: Last week, a 3rd-year undergraduate student of political science, Dan Freeman-Maloy, received a letter informing him of a 3-year suspension from York University, simply for using a megaphone on campus. The
» Read moreMy Expulsion from York University: An appeal for support and reconsideration
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Freeman-Maloy | Defend Free Speech at York University | 3 May 2004 On April 30, 2004, I received a letter signed by York University President and Vice-Chancellor Lorna Marsden declaring that I “will have no purpose on campus” after May 1, 2004. If I set foot on York’s campus at any point in
» Read moreYork's notice of expulsion (Annotated)
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lorna R. Marsden | Defend Free Speech at York University | 30 April 2004 Daniel Freeman-Maloy received the following letter on April 30, 2004. The envelope that contained it was post-marked for April 26, the letter itself dated for April 21. Comments by Freeman-Maloy are in square brackets. Dear Mr. Maloy, In the past
» Read moreNeocon Man: Profile of Daniel Pipes
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Eyal Press | The Nation | April 22, 2004 [from the May 10, 2004 issue] Daniel Pipes was a busy man in the days following September 11, 2001. The Philadelphia-based foreign policy analyst and commentator on terrorism and Islam first learned that planes had crashed into the World Trade Center when a local television
» Read moreIsraeli Education Official Calls for Professor to Be Punished for 'Genocide' Accusation
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | Chronicle of Higher Education | 23 April 2004 Israel’s minister of education, Limor Livnat, has announced that she will not participate in events at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev until the institution disciplines a member of its faculty who wrote that Israel is conducting a “symbolic genocide” of the Palestinian people.
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