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Category Archives: Signs, Graffitti and Cartoons
Shirat HaSticker (The Sticker Song): the multiple voices within the Israeli community
Shirat HaSticker (“The Sticker Song”) is a song by the Israeli Hip-Hop band, Hadag Nachash. The songs title is a reference to the source of the song lyrics; all the lyrics are taken from bumper stickers or popular slogans (with … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Music & Oral Performance, Out-of-Class Media Post, Signs, Graffitti and Cartoons
Tagged Israel, Music, out-of class media post, Role-Switching
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Zahra’s Paradise
Zahra’s Paradise is a graphic novel created by an American-Iranian human rights activist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker named Amir who has lived and worked in the US, Canada, Europe, and Afghanistan. The editor of the graphic novel is Jewish, while … Continue reading
Posted in Out-of-Class Media Post, Signs, Graffitti and Cartoons, Uncategorized
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Flowers of Revolution
Ali Farzat is a Syrian political cartoonist who is well known for his satires of Arab rulers and authorities. Out of the cartoons that we discussed in class, I particularly liked the one of the tree and flower. Cameron and … Continue reading
Ali Farzat and the Syrian Regime
Ali Farzat’s cartoons are characteristically printed without captions. This feature allows him to critique authoritarian regimes more generally, but it also allows the reader to interpret for his- or her-self where the cartoon takes place and, I believe, leads to … Continue reading
Shame in the Syrian Revolution
For this blog post, I was really struck by the fact that we, as a class, seemed to be fairly unsure as to how we ought to interpret the above cartoon. After considering it for a while, though I can’t … Continue reading
The Evasive Power of Facebook
When we were analyzing Ali Farzat’s cartoons in class, I found the two featuring Bashar Al-Assad himself particularly interesting. These cartoons evoke themes similar to that of his other work, such as the government’s empty promises of reform and the … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, In-Class Media Post, Signs, Graffitti and Cartoons
Tagged Ali Farzat, Arab Spring, Assad, Bashar, Cartoons, Censorship, Facebook, syria
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Egyptian Graffiti: Keizer
I read Uprisings in Translation, the blog of a friend and Tufts alumna living in Cairo, in which she translates and discusses the graffiti she sees around the city. Recently, she met with street artist Keizer to talk about his work … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, Out-of-Class Media Post, Signs, Graffitti and Cartoons
Tagged Egypt, out-of class media post
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Free Speech and Censorship
We’ve been viewing and discussing many images about the Arab Spring and political cartoons, but what does it all mean? What exactly is free speech and what is the difference between the cartoons drawn by Ali Farzat and Danish JP … Continue reading
Posted in In-Class Media Post, News & Journalism, Signs, Graffitti and Cartoons, Uncategorized
Tagged Free Speech, Opinion
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Reclaiming Barriers
While browsing the internet the other day I came upon an article called “Egypt artists “reopen” street by graffiti protest”, published by the Houston Chronicle. It is about the emergence of graffiti in Cairo on the concrete barriers set up … Continue reading
Resistance and Solidarity in Palestinian Graffiti
Palestinians used graffiti for political, social, informative, and aesthetic purposes. On the separation barriers, graffiti was done by Palestinians and internationals in protest of the wall (although much of it was created by the latter). Away from the wall, graffiti … Continue reading