Arab Animation

Images of Identity

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by Omar Sayfo

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Middle East

Keywords

Middle East, animation, ideology

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

1st publishing

2021

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 288 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-7949-3

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Book Presentation:
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.

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.

Press Reviews:
This work is encyclopaedic in ambition and scope. Its coverage includes details of the production background and texts of scores of animations, organised coherently according to the author’s framework of national, pan-Arab, Islamic, ‘revolutionary’ and global identities and researched through painstaking and resourceful seeking out and sifting of a wide range of archives and sources, including interviews. -- Naomi Sakr, Professor of Media Policy, University of Westminster

Dr. Sayfo has worked with the best scholars in the field, and has done such a large amount of groundwork through interviews and fieldwork, that I am convinced this book will serve as one of the benchmarks for research on Arab animation in years to come. This excellent book combines critical analysis of existing scholarship with original research that has not been accessed or unlocked previously. -- Professor Stefanie Van de Peer, Lecturer in Film and Media, Queen Margaret University

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