Arab Animation: Images of Identity

Omar Sayfo textually analyses around 40 animation productions in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, from the 1930s until recently. He shows how rival notions of national, pan-Arab and Islamic identities have been advocated, challenged and fused by Arab animated cartoons.

Author: Omar Sayfo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 06/16/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781474479486
ISBN10: 1474479480
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Animation (see also Film | Genres | Animated)
- History | Middle East | General
- Social Science | Popular Culture

About the Author

Omar Sayfo is Affiliated Researcher in the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University and a researcher at the Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies. He has published articles among others in Animation, Media Industries Journal and The Journal of Popular Culture, as well as chapters in a number of edited collections.