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The Cartoon in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot
Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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The history of the pictorial cartoon is a very recent one in Egypt, dating from the late nineteenth century when the popular press was established. Like many newspapers founded at the time, the 1870s, the cartoon began as an expression of growing feelings of antagonism towards the ruler, in the hands of a few men who formed the intelligentsia of the day. They set about to create and direct a public opinion which was then nonexistent, but which they hoped to mould into an instrument to use against a corrupt and autocratic administration. Very little work, if any at all, has been done on the sociology of the Egyptian cartoon, and I will not here undertake such a monumental task for which I am ill qualified; but within the limits of this article I can give the reader an historical background of the cartoon in Egypt.

Type
Cartooning
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1971 , pp. 2 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1971

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References

1 For discussion of cartoons and their function see the following articles: Streicher, Laurence ‘David Low and the Sociology of Caricature’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, VIII (10 1965)Google Scholar; Victor Alba, ‘The Mexican Revolution and the Cartoon’, ibid., IX (January 1967); W. A. Coupe, ‘The German Cartoon and the Revolution of 1848’, ibid.; L. Streicher, ‘A Theory of Political Caricature’, ibid., (July 1967); W. A. Coupe, ibid., XI (January 1969).

2 Berque, Jacques, L'Egypte: Impérialisme et Révolution (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1967), p. 359.Google Scholar

3 That is how Lord Salisbury, the British Foreign Secretary described government intervention in Egyptian finances in 1879.

4 de Baignières, Paul, L'Egypte Satirique: Album D'Abou Naddara (Paris: Lefebvre, 1886), p. 6.Google Scholar

5 For a more detailed study of Yaqub Sanua see Gendzier, Irene, The Practical Visions of Yaqub Sanua (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966), p. 64.Google Scholar

6 Ibid., p. 64; also de Baignières, , op. cit., p. 15.Google Scholar

7 Jerrold, Blanchard, Egypt under Ismail Pasha (London: S. Tinsley & Co., 1879), p. 219.Google Scholar

8 See Irene Gendzier, op. cit.