"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea in my head. Other times I ravage entire books looking for the spark of a joke. I have read more widely on the subject of medieval Baghdad this spring and summer than I have since grad school, and this has been time very well spent."
‘KAPOW’: A Discussion of Comics and Identity at Emirates LitFest
" I turned to our male-dominated history where the role of women has been very important, yet we don’t hear about it."
Popular Egyptian Cartoonist Islam Gawish Arrested and Released
"At noon [on Sunday], a force of over 10 security personnel stormed the social media marketing company where Gawish works and arrested him, confiscating his laptop and other computers owned by the organization[.]"
What Does Arab Comics Culture Look Like?
"The idea of Arab nationalism affected every aspect of the comics."
Jonathan Guyer of ‘Oum Cartoon’ on the Shrinking Space for Dissent
Earlier this month, Jonathan Guyer -- of the blog Oum Cartoon -- spoke at the American University in Cairo about Egypt's ever-shifting red lines and the currently shrunken space for cartooning dissent.
