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Category: TMR 12 • COMIX

15 August, 2021 • Aomar Boum

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 East.

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15 August, 2021 • Aomar Boum

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 a new generation of Moroccan artists.

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15 August, 2021 • George Jad Khoury

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 Arab world.

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15 August, 2021 • 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.

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15 August, 2021 • Brahim El Guabli

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.

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15 August, 2021 • Sherine Hamdy

Women Comic Artists, from Afghanistan to Morocco

Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern women’s political cartooning.

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15 August, 2021 • Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik 

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 a new graphic novel.

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15 August, 2021 • Jenny White

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.

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15 August, 2021 • TMR

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” Dhaimish.

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15 August, 2021 • Amber Sackett

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.

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15 August, 2021 • Nadjib Berber

The Excellent Journey of Algerian Cartoonist Nadjib Berber

For 20 years, Algeria was the preeminent country of comics in the Maghreb and Middle East. Nadjib Berber shares some of his story.

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