Arab cartoons court controversy — Weeks before being assaulted, Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat depicted President Bashar al-Assad thumbing a ride from ousted, now-deceased Libyan dictator Moammar ...
As violent clashes over cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad continued to flare across the Middle East this week, Jewish and Muslim leaders and organizations traded accusations of hypocrisy.
It’s politically incorrect, and also inaccurate, to use the loaded phrase “clash of civilizations” to describe big stuff like the war in Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the burgeoning ...
As the debate rages on over the publication of controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, Arab bloggers are reacting with their own take on the ...
Skatoony, an animated game show that pits child contestants against cartoon characters, is scheduled to premiere in Arabic on free-to-air channel Cartoon Network Arabic on April 5 across the Mena ...
Political cartoonists in the Arabic-language press have dramatically increased their use of antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories in the wake of the October 7 Hamas onslaught in Israel and the ...
Arab children, across generations, haven't grown up with a single visual culture. The wide eyes, dark hair, and stylish action sequences of Japanese anime existed alongside Disney's animal sidekicks, ...
Political satire has a long Arab history, and much of it has been through cartooning. Soon after the fourth anniversary of the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, a cartoon ...
Two recent incidents in or near the Middle East have highlighted a noxious bit of hypocrisy for anyone to see. Next time you hear Arab leaders complain about the portrayal of Islam in America, think ...