scholarly journals EGYPTIAN COMICS AND THE CHALLENGE TO PATRIARCHAL AUTHORITARIANISM

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Høigilt
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
Cultural Movement

AbstractAdult comics are a new medium in the Arab world. This article is the first in-depth study of their emergence and role within Arab societies. Focused on Egypt, it shows how adult comics have boldly addressed political and social questions. Seeing them as part of a broader cultural efflorescence in Egypt, I argue that, against patriarchal authoritarianism, adult comics have expressed an alternative ideology of tolerance, civic rights and duties, individualism, creativity, and criticism of power. Specifically, they present a damning critique of Egypt's authoritarian order, as well as of the marginalization of women and broader gender dynamics in Egyptian society. Through frank humor, a playful style, and explicit graphics, they give voice to the concerns of young Egyptians. Connecting comics to other art forms such as music, graffiti, and political cartoons, I situate them within a critical cultural movement that came to the fore with the Egyptian uprising of 2011.

“In YouTube We Trust”

2014 ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Aziz Douai
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Exchange Site ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
Shed Light

YouTube has enabled new forms of political dissent in Arab societies. This chapter examines the development and rise of YouTube in the Arab world. In particular, it looks at how this video exchange site is invigorating the online public sphere’s vigorous demand for political reform and respect for human rights. Specifically, this investigation explores how social networking capabilities have made YouTube an effective asset in dissidents’ arsenal among Arab activists. To examine the vibrancy of this fledgling online public sphere, the chapter scrutinizes how activists incorporated YouTube videos to shed light on human rights abuses, specifically police abuse, corruption, and brutality in two Arab countries, Egypt and Morocco. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the new campaigning modes that the Internet and YouTube have facilitated.

Online Activism and the Arab Public Sphere

2019 ◽  
pp. 324-339
Author(s):  
Aziz Douai
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Exchange Site ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Arab Societies

YouTube has enabled new forms of political dissent in Arab societies. This article examines the development and rise of YouTube in the Arab world. In particular, it looks at how this video exchange site is invigorating the online public sphere's vigorous demand for political reform and respect for human rights. Specifically, this investigation explores how social networking capabilities have made YouTube an effective asset in dissidents' arsenal among Arab activists. To examine the vibrancy of this fledgling online public sphere, the chapter scrutinizes how activists incorporated YouTube videos to shed light on human rights abuses, specifically police abuse, corruption, and brutality in two Arab countries, Egypt and Morocco. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the new campaigning modes that the Internet and YouTube have facilitated.

scholarly journals Taǧnīs al-Multaqaṭ as a Source for Studying the Transition Period of Hanafism in Central Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 522
Author(s):  
Zafar Najmiddinov
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
The Government ◽  
Arab Societies

Freedom, civil society legalism, pluralism, useful, constructive and healthy competition in society, political participation, elections, a comprehensive constitution, and the growth of non-governmental organizations, fundamental freedoms and the provision of civil and political rights are the most important components of political development are. People in society and the establishment of a parliamentary system. New movements are also mainly social and cultural in nature and emerged with the aim of reviving identity, deepening and developing political participation in Islamic and Arab societies. Some affiliated Arab regimes, such as the government of Al-Saud and the military regime of al-Sisi in Egypt, consider democracy to be a great and serious threat to the survival of their regime. Findings show that political culture, diplomatic support and guarantees, economic aid and foreign intervention are important obstacles to political development in the Arab world, and Arab regimes deliberately and sometimes inadvertently engineer polarization methods in society to prevent this. By the way, their authoritarian methods seem to be the last obstacle to the total collapse of their countries. Such conditions are certainly crucial to the survival of the Arab world governments and the Arab coup military regimes in the Middle East and North Africa. The method used in this research is qualitative (descriptive-analytical) and the method of collecting information is the use of library resources.

Nizar Qabbani

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Barakat
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
Foreign Ministry

Nizar Qabbani was a Syrian poet, publisher, and diplomat. He was largely considered Syria’s national poet, and one of the most prominent contemporary figures in the Arab world. Born in Damascus on 21 March 1923, he studied law at Damascus University. After graduating in 1945, he worked for the Syrian Foreign Ministry, serving in several capital cities, including Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, Madrid, and London. By the time he tendered his resignation in 1966, he had established a publishing house in Beirut, which carried his name. He died in London on 30 April 1998, and was buried in Damascus. His work was featured not only in his two dozen volumes of poetry and in regular contributions to the Arabic language newspaper Al-Hayat, but also in lyrics sung by Syrian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Iraqi, and other vocalists who helped popularize his work. He is one of the major Arab writers to have sparked major controversy and instigated change in Arab societies.

Arab Political Cartoons and Facebook: Nadia Khiari, Ali Ferzat and Mohammed Sabaaneh

2020 ◽  
pp. 019685992097711
Author(s):  
Salud Adelaida Flores Borjabad ◽  
Francisco Javier Ruiz del Olmo
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Cartoons ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Social Customs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Political Backlash

Throughout history, political cartoons have shown themselves to be an extremely powerful media for satirizing and criticizing regimes and social customs. They have been employed by the social and political movements during the Arab Spring. This paper is an attempt to analyze the importance of and the backlash to political cartoons that have been published on Facebook by three important cartoonists in terms of their number of followers and the magnitude of political backlash to their works. A qualitative and interpretative methodology has been used as well as a multimodal analysis to study the cartoons of Ali Ferzat, Nadia Khiary, and Mohammed Sabaaneh. Consequently, the conclusions are that variety in style, irony, and perception have been used, with the help of Facebook, the favorite social network of the Arab world, to irritate the established regimes.

The crisis of Arab states, ethics and citizenship

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 357-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges Corm
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Purpose ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
The Cold War

The present article constitutes an attempt to analyse the historical causes of the present crisis affecting the Arab world and the failure to build modern states in this region. It has to be noticed that from the three main ethnic groups constituting the pillars of the Middle East, i.e. the Persians, the Arabs and the Turks, the Arab failure and the generalization of violence in Arab societies and between Arab states is to be adequately analysed in order to be able to contribute to peace, reform and a dignified life for Arab citizens. Different historical factors are identified in the article, some of them internal to Arab societies, but inextricably linked to massive foreign interferences in the region. The last of these interferences are linked to the instrumentalization of religion in the last period of the cold war in order to stop the extension of Soviet and communist influence in the Arab and Muslim world. Since then, this use of religion for political purpose in the conflicts about supremacy in the region has destroyed ethics and citizenship and given rise to generalized violence and acts of terrorism, in addition to other economic and social factors that are identified in the article.

Islamic Revivalism in the Arab World and Its Dialogue with the West

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-42
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
Religious Transformation ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

This paper seeks to underline two features of transformation in the Arab world since the late 1960s. First, that region’s religious transformation or ṣaḥwah(awakening) has been a general and overwhelming phenomenon. The pulse of Islam’s global surge can be easily observed at various levels of contemporary Arab countries: the individual and the collective, as well as their political behavior and organization. Second, the great tension between the West and Islam, particularly after 9/11, constituted a sort of change in the relationship between these two parties. I argue that these tensions could be reduced and minimized if the West were to improve its linguistic and cultural ties with Arab societies. The perspective of cultural sociology is very helpful in clarifying how to enhance such a dialogue. I shed light on these two topics through what I call a Homo Culturus perspective.

Shi’r

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Luce
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Culture War ◽  
Arab State ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Monthly Journal ◽  
Cultural Movement

The journal, Shi’r (Poetry 1957–70) was established in Beirut by Yūsuf al-Khāl and the poet theorist Adunis to save poetry from politics. It emerged as a professional avant-garde monthly journal with a core group of young poets dedicated to poetry and poetic studies. The journal supported poetic experimentation. Shi’r advocated for the prose poem as a way to spark cultural change, believing that innovative efforts were necessary to intellectually modernize the Arab World. Shi’r rebelled against the ‘committed literature’ (al-adab al-multazim) movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The circle believed this to be ‘a prostitution of art’ to political causes and ideologies. Shi’r was perceived as a subversive cultural movement. It was banned in a number of countries, accused of supporting a culture war against Arab nationalism, and of being funded by the CIA and French intelligence, inter alia. Shi’r’s poets were more concerned with the post-colonial Arab ‘state of being’ than reforming or overthrowing states. The Shi’r poets adopted the concept of ru’iya or vision theorized in 1959 by Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said) who asserted that modern poetry possessed a mystical or intuitive knowledge that allowed the poet to see beyond. The intention was to liberate Arab consciousness and to liberate it from the qasidah using the Arabic language, to free one’s thinking.

Online Activism and the Arab Public Sphere

2015 ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Aziz Douai
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Exchange Site ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Arab Societies

YouTube has enabled new forms of political dissent in Arab societies. This article examines the development and rise of YouTube in the Arab world. In particular, it looks at how this video exchange site is invigorating the online public sphere's vigorous demand for political reform and respect for human rights. Specifically, this investigation explores how social networking capabilities have made YouTube an effective asset in dissidents' arsenal among Arab activists. To examine the vibrancy of this fledgling online public sphere, the chapter scrutinizes how activists incorporated YouTube videos to shed light on human rights abuses, specifically police abuse, corruption, and brutality in two Arab countries, Egypt and Morocco. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the new campaigning modes that the Internet and YouTube have facilitated.

An Emerging Trend in Arab Migration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise De Bel-Air
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Proximate Determinants ◽  
Migratory Patterns ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
Female Professionals

The growing share of skilled and highly-skilled, often unmarried, young Arab women immigrating to the GCC is generally un-documented. Shedding some light on this population, therefore, will not only emphasize a new phenomenon, but it also, first, points at a new structural trend within Arab populations: the emergence of educated female professionals in Arab societies characterized by low female activity rates. Second, it challenges the dominant assumption that Arab migration to Gulf countries is a “male-only” phenomenon in which women are married dependents. This contribution aims at laying some ground to bridge the knowledge gap regarding Arab female highly-skilled workers in the Gulf. The study explores the proximate determinants—rise in age at marriage, development of female celibacy in the Arab world, expansion of female education levels—and structural conditions compelling an increasing number of Arab citizens, male and female, to seek better futures abroad. Findings, such as the widespread denial that patriarchal pressures are important factors in determining Arab female migration, question the categories used, including Arab, female, and Gulf migration patterns. The study also concludes that such partial results beg to be completed by a wider-scale survey involving highly-skilled female migrants from several Arab countries and systematically comparing their migratory patterns and experience.

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