TMR 12 • Comix

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle...

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Aomar Boum
Migration and Mentorship: the Case of Abdelaziz Mouride

Migration and Mentorship: the Case of Abdelaziz Mouride

Aomar Boum, guest editor of TMR’s COMIX issue, heralds the work of master cartoonist Abdelaziz Mouride in mentoring...

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Jenny White
Rebellion Resurrected: The Will of Youth Against History

Rebellion Resurrected: The Will of Youth Against History

The Lebanese cartoonist and BD historian George “Jad” Khoury gives an in-depth overview of contemporary comix across the...

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By George Jad Khoury
Beginnings, the Life & Times of “Slim” aka Menouar Merabtene

Beginnings, the Life & Times of “Slim” aka Menouar Merabtene

Algeria’s leading cartoonist reminisces on his start in bandes dessinées in Algeria, Poland and France.

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Sherine Hamdy
Obdurate Moroccan Memories: Abdelkrim’s Afterlife in a Graphic Novel

Obdurate Moroccan Memories: Abdelkrim’s Afterlife in a Graphic Novel

Brahim El Guabli writes about the Amazigh leader and resistance fighter Abdelkarim who inspired great Moroccan graphic novels.

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Brahim El Guabli
Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern...

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Sherine Hamdy
Puigaudeau & Sénones: a Graphic Novel on Mauritania Circa 1933

Puigaudeau & Sénones: a Graphic Novel on Mauritania Circa 1933

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik describes the journey of the queer French couple across Mauritania that will be the basis for...

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Amber Sackett
An Anthropologist Tells of 1970s Upheaval in “Turkish Kaleidoscope”

An Anthropologist Tells of 1970s Upheaval in “Turkish Kaleidoscope”

Novelist and university professor Jenny White creates a graphic novel on 1970s Turkey with illustrator Ergün Gündüz.

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Jenny White
Libya’s Exiled Satirist, Hasan “Alsatoor” Dhaimish

Libya’s Exiled Satirist, Hasan “Alsatoor” Dhaimish

During the long Gaddafi years, Libya produced many exiles, among them the satirical cartoonist and illustrator Hasan “Alsatoor”...

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By
French Colonialism in Algeria and Ferrandez’s “Carnets d’Orient”

French Colonialism in Algeria and Ferrandez’s “Carnets d’Orient”

Amber Sackett analyzes the popular French cartoonist Jacques Ferrandez’s series depicting colonial Algeria under the French.

AUGUST 15, 2021 • By Jessica Proett
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