In recent weeks, the Qatari media has been slamming the Trump administration's efforts to advance a regional peace plan that has come to be known as the "Deal of the Century." Qatari media reports and articles about this plan have described it as serving Israel's interests while ...
By: N. Licht
The 2018 World Cup, held this summer in Russia, is addressed in many cartoons in the global media, including in the Arab world. Many of the cartoons in the Arab media express disappointment and criticism over the poor performance of the Arab teams, especially sinc...
İbrahim Özdabak is a Turkish cartoonist whose personal website includes cartoons dating back to 2005 covering many subjects relevant to Turkish society and politics.[1] Many of his cartoons have antisemitic themes, depicting Jews as blood-soaked butchers, vultures circling ov...
The recent weeks' massive attacks on the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta by the Assad regime and its allies, primarily Russia, which has reportedly involved chemical weapons, has sparked a flood of reactions in the Arab press. Among these reactions are cartoons published in the...
The decree issued September 26, 2017 by the Saudi King, which lifted the ban on women driving in the kingdom, sparked a storm of reactions in the government media and on Saudi social media accounts. The government media reported extensively on responses welcoming the decision, wh...
The current crisis between the Gulf countries and Egypt on the one hand and Qatar on the other[1] is being reflected in numerous editorial cartoons published in Gulf newspapers, both in Qatar and in the countries that are boycotting it.
Many of the cartoons, which appeared pr...
The humanitarian disaster in eastern Aleppo due to the massive attacks of the Syrian regime and its allies, Russia and Iran, on the city, as well as Aleppo's recent recapture by the regime, have been widely addressed in the Arab media, including in many Cartoons, especially in th...
On
September 28, 2016, the U.S. Congress passed the Justice Against Sponsors of
Terrorism Act (JASTA), which enables U.S. citizens affected by terrorism to
file lawsuits against countries found to be involved in those actions. Thus,
U.S. citizens affected by 9/11 will be able...
In a 2011 episode of his religious TV show, Kuwaiti preacher Nabil Al-Awadi claimed that there was a Jewish-Freemason conspiracy aimed at instilling un-Islamic messages in the mind of children through popular animated films. "The whole world has turned SpongeBob," he complained. ...
The following are cartoons on
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, appeared on
the Pro-Kremlin media outlets Sharzh I
Pero and Studiya 13, a project
run by young pro-Kremlin Russian artists. The cartoons depict Obama as a loser,
an alcoholic and an ov...
The following is an overview of cartoons on the U.S. elections,
published in Russian pro-Kremlin media outlets.
The main cartoons' leitmotif is that both Democratic candidate
Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump are inadequate for the
job of U.S. president. The...
The
following are cartoons published in pro-Kremlin media outlets on U.S. President
Barack Obama's legacy and future after the U.S. elections. The cartoons envision
Obama inter alia working as a waiter at McDonald's and as a pizza delivery,
once his term of office as U.S. preside...
The failed coup attempt carried out in Turkey the night of July 15, 2016 by some Turkish army units was extensively covered in the Arab and Iranian media, and was also the topic of cartoons. Most of the cartoons emphasized the role played by Turkey's citizens in thwarting the cou...
On July
8, 2016, the two-day NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland began. The summit was an
opportunity to define NATO's policy vis-à-vis Russia. In advance of the summit,
a number of cartoons critical of this policy were published in pro-Kremlin
media.
Below is a review of...
On
May 30, 2016, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced that they had failed to reach an understanding
on arrangements for Iranians to attend this year's Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca),
and that consequently Iranians will not come to Saudi Arabia to participate in
the rituals. The Iranians ...
On June 27, 2016, Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan apologized to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of
the pilot in the downing of the Russian Su-24 plane over the Syria-Turkey
border in November 2015. The Kremlin website reported that in his letter,
Erdogan sai...
Palestine Today TV broadcast a report on the third International Holocaust Cartoon Contest taking place in Tehran, in which it claimed that the contest has "nothing to do with antisemitism" and that "its only goal was to present the current holocaust, being perpetrated by the Isr...
As the third Holocaust International Cartoon Contest concluded in Tehran, at the end of May 2016, the Resistart.ir website published the winners' names. First prize went to the French cartoonist Zeon.
Contest secretary Masoud Shojaei Tabtabaei said that Iranian Supreme Leader ...
NATO's
eastward enlargement and the recent deployment of NATO's ballistic missile
defense system in Eastern Europe has been a featured topic of anti-NATO
cartoons in pro-Kremlin media outlets.[1] The
following is a sampling of such cartoons published in Russia's government-funded...
On May 15, Al-Alam TV broadcast a report on the opening of the third International Holocaust Cartoon Contest in Tehran. The exhibition features caricatures of Israeli PM Netanyahu, comparing him to Hitler and to ISIS terrorists. The organizer, Shojai Tabtabai, said that the exhib...
Introduction
On April 28, 2016, the Syrian army, along
with Russian and Iranian forces, launched a crushing assault on the city of
Aleppo that included massive airstrikes that lasted one week and inflicted
hundreds of casualties. The assault came after some two months of a cess...
On May 14, 2016, the third Holocaust International Cartoon Contest is set to open in Tehran.[1] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has denied that there is any connection between the Iranian government and this event.[2] He told The New Yorker magazine, in an intervi...
Introduction
Political cartoons can currently
be found in only a few independent media outlets, such as Polit.ru and Svoboda.org,
and in some pro-Kremlin websites and newspapers, such as RIA Novosti,[1] Sputnik International,[2] and Sharzh I
Pero. The
main motif in cartoons ...
On March 14, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin
announced that the following day Russia would begin withdrawing most its forces
from Syria, stating that they had accomplished most of their objectives there.
He added that some Russian forces would remain at the Hmeymim airbase...
Anti-American
cartoons are quite common in the pro-government Russian media. The following
are examples of such cartoons that describe the U.S. as an evil power that
promotes terrorism while pretending to fight it. The cartoons are taken from
two pro-regime Russian media outlets:...
The
escalation in Saudi-Iranian tension resulting from the events that began with
Saudi Arabia's January 2, 2016 execution of senior Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Nimr
Al-Nimr, along with 46 other prisoners; the subsequent attacks in Iran on Saudi
legations; and Saudi Arabia's severing o...
Russia's growing military involvement in Syria, and the launch of its airstrike campaign there, have sparked intense criticism in the Gulf press, as well as on Syrian opposition websites. This criticism is expressed inter alia in cartoons that depict Syrian President Bashar Al-As...
The joint statement by Iran and the superpowers following the round of nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 3, 2015 sparked widespread reactions in the Arab press, including in political cartoons. The vast majority of the cartoons expressed anger and disappointment wit...
The Arab press has recently been awash with cartoons condemning Iran's intervention in Arab countries. The cartoons appeared mainly in the Gulf press and in London-based Gulf newspapers, as well as in the Jordanian and Egyptian press. They portray Iran as sowing destruction in th...
In an animated video-clip posted on the Internet on April 11, 2015 by "Fadhaeh Al-'Ilmaniyya", a pro-ISIS group of media activists, shows President Obama begging for mercy before being beheaded by ISIS executioner Jihadi John. At the end of the animated film, Obama is shown awake...
Introduction
On February 1, 2015, the Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published a cartoon by illustrator Mohammad Sabaaneh of a man with a heart-shaped shoulder bag standing in an aura of light atop the Earth and scattering droplets of light. The cartoon is titled "Our Mast...
Following are excerpts from an anti-France demonstration in Iran, which aired on FarsNews on January 19, 2015: Inscription on the palm of the an Iranian demonstrator "Death to France" Female Iranian demonstrators: Death to France! Death to France! Prayers upon the Prophet Muh...
In response to the Charlie Hebdo attack and to the mass anti-terror demonstrations in France, several Arab columnists called upon the Arabs and Muslims to hold mass demonstrations against terror, just as they held mass demonstrations against the publication of the cartoons mockin...
As the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip continues, there is evidence of a sense of disappointment in the Arab and Muslim world at the Arab countries' failure to act to aid the Gaza residents, and at the Arab League's indifference to events there. This disappointment has be...
In a TV interview renowned Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat recounted details of his torture and attempted assassination following his criticism of "the president, the secret services, the Baath Party, and the mafia gangs operating in Syria." Farzat, who is currently in exile in Kuwa...
On April 20, 2014, the Syrian regime announced that presidential elections would be held on June 3, 2014 inside Syria and on May 28, 2014 among Syrian citizens resident abroad.[1] Two weeks later, it was announced that, in addition to incumbent president Bashar Al-Assad, two othe...
İbrahim Özdabak is a Turkish cartoonist whose personal website includes cartoons dating back to 2005 covering many subjects relevant to Turkish society and politics.[1] Many of his cartoons have antisemitic themes, depicting Jews as blood-soaked butchers, vultures circling ov...
The recent weeks' massive attacks on the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta by the Assad regime and its allies, primarily Russia, which has reportedly involved chemical weapons, has sparked a flood of reactions in the Arab press. Among these reactions are cartoons published in the...
The current crisis between the Gulf countries and Egypt on the one hand and Qatar on the other[1] is being reflected in numerous editorial cartoons published in Gulf newspapers, both in Qatar and in the countries that are boycotting it.
Many of the cartoons, which appeared pr...
On
September 28, 2016, the U.S. Congress passed the Justice Against Sponsors of
Terrorism Act (JASTA), which enables U.S. citizens affected by terrorism to
file lawsuits against countries found to be involved in those actions. Thus,
U.S. citizens affected by 9/11 will be able...
The following are cartoons on
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, appeared on
the Pro-Kremlin media outlets Sharzh I
Pero and Studiya 13, a project
run by young pro-Kremlin Russian artists. The cartoons depict Obama as a loser,
an alcoholic and an ov...
The following is an overview of cartoons on the U.S. elections,
published in Russian pro-Kremlin media outlets.
The main cartoons' leitmotif is that both Democratic candidate
Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump are inadequate for the
job of U.S. president. The...
The
following are cartoons published in pro-Kremlin media outlets on U.S. President
Barack Obama's legacy and future after the U.S. elections. The cartoons envision
Obama inter alia working as a waiter at McDonald's and as a pizza delivery,
once his term of office as U.S. preside...
The failed coup attempt carried out in Turkey the night of July 15, 2016 by some Turkish army units was extensively covered in the Arab and Iranian media, and was also the topic of cartoons. Most of the cartoons emphasized the role played by Turkey's citizens in thwarting the cou...
On July
8, 2016, the two-day NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland began. The summit was an
opportunity to define NATO's policy vis-à-vis Russia. In advance of the summit,
a number of cartoons critical of this policy were published in pro-Kremlin
media.
Below is a review of...
On
May 30, 2016, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced that they had failed to reach an understanding
on arrangements for Iranians to attend this year's Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca),
and that consequently Iranians will not come to Saudi Arabia to participate in
the rituals. The Iranians ...
On June 27, 2016, Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan apologized to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of
the pilot in the downing of the Russian Su-24 plane over the Syria-Turkey
border in November 2015. The Kremlin website reported that in his letter,
Erdogan sai...
As the third Holocaust International Cartoon Contest concluded in Tehran, at the end of May 2016, the Resistart.ir website published the winners' names. First prize went to the French cartoonist Zeon.
Contest secretary Masoud Shojaei Tabtabaei said that Iranian Supreme Leader ...
On May 14, 2016, the third Holocaust International Cartoon Contest is set to open in Tehran.[1] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has denied that there is any connection between the Iranian government and this event.[2] He told The New Yorker magazine, in an intervi...
Anti-American
cartoons are quite common in the pro-government Russian media. The following
are examples of such cartoons that describe the U.S. as an evil power that
promotes terrorism while pretending to fight it. The cartoons are taken from
two pro-regime Russian media outlets:...
Russia's growing military involvement in Syria, and the launch of its airstrike campaign there, have sparked intense criticism in the Gulf press, as well as on Syrian opposition websites. This criticism is expressed inter alia in cartoons that depict Syrian President Bashar Al-As...
The joint statement by Iran and the superpowers following the round of nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 3, 2015 sparked widespread reactions in the Arab press, including in political cartoons. The vast majority of the cartoons expressed anger and disappointment wit...
The Arab press has recently been awash with cartoons condemning Iran's intervention in Arab countries. The cartoons appeared mainly in the Gulf press and in London-based Gulf newspapers, as well as in the Jordanian and Egyptian press. They portray Iran as sowing destruction in th...
As the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip continues, there is evidence of a sense of disappointment in the Arab and Muslim world at the Arab countries' failure to act to aid the Gaza residents, and at the Arab League's indifference to events there. This disappointment has be...
On April 20, 2014, the Syrian regime announced that presidential elections would be held on June 3, 2014 inside Syria and on May 28, 2014 among Syrian citizens resident abroad.[1] Two weeks later, it was announced that, in addition to incumbent president Bashar Al-Assad, two othe...
Several Pakistani writers have recently questioned liberal "apologists" for failing to understand the links between Islamic sharia and incidents such as the abduction of more than 200 teenage girls from a school by Nigerian jihadi group Boko Haram or the Pakistani Taliban's 2...
Following are excerpts from a Hamas cartoon promoting the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on October 11, 2013:
Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV
Narrator: "As I have told you, there were times when the Al-Qassam ...
With the escalation of the crisis in Syria, there has been increasingly harsh criticism in the Arab media of Russia, as well as of China, who have consistently deflected all Arab and international attempts to stop the violence and to remove Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad from p...
Since the outbreak of the protests in Syria, the Arab press has published numerous cartoons reflecting the brutality of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and the impasse in which Syria finds itself, with escalating criticism against the Syrian regime and its murderous policy. Th...
Following are cartoons from Pakistani newspapers on how Pakistan is confronting the United States after U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the Taliban's Haqqani Network attacks on U.S. targets in Afghanistan, including the ...
Following are excerpts from footage aired by Al-Arabiya TV, in which Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farazat is shown in hospital, after having been kidnapped and beaten by the Syrian security forces. The footage aired on August 26, 2011.
TV ancho...
Following are excerpts from an interview with Syrian cartoonist Ali Farazat, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on August 4, 2011.
Ali Farazat: "Lebanon is held by prisoner by a certain group, as is known by all."
Interviewer: "You mean H...
Since the outbreak of protests in Syria, the Arab press has featured numerous cartoons reflecting the brutality of President Bashar Assad's regime. Many cartoons portrayed the bloodshed and massacre of Syrian civilians, while others depicted the weakening stance of the regime i...
Cartoons published in the Arab press since the outbreak of the uprising in Libya reflect an Arab consensus against Libyan leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi and his reaction to the events. Al-Qadhafi is portrayed as a raving lunatic who is butchering his people and destroying his country...
Cartoons published in the Arab press in response to the current wave of protests in Egypt and in the Arab world at large addressed the causes of the protests, the responses of the Arab leaders to them, and the anticipated fate of these leaders, as well as the reaction of the Ame...
Following are excerpts from an interview with Saudi poet Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shimri, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on December 26, 2010.
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memri.org/legacy/clip/2743.
Interviewer: "You appeared on a radio show, and said that yo...
Since the rise of the AKP party in 2002, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed lawsuits against various journalists, politicians, writers, and private citizens who have criticized his actions and the policies of his government. Erdogan's lawyers have argued in cou...
In recent months, religious groups in Pakistan have held frequent and regular public rallies protesting against the republication of the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad by newspapers in Norway and Denmark.
In a recent article, titled "The Publication of Blasp...
Cartoons from the Arab Press Against Terrorism in Algeria During the month of August 2008, Algeria was hit by several devastating terror bombings. On August 19, 43 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside a police academy in Isser, 60 km east of th...
On June 25, 2008, the Saudi Interior Ministry reported the arrest of 520 Al-Qaeda operatives who had planned to strike oil facilities and economic centers in eastern Saudi Arabia. According to the report, the leader of the cell, who bore a message from Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayma...
On December 27, 2007, Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP),[1] was shot to death after addressing a crowd of supporters in a park near Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, outside the capital of Islamabad. While the ...
On July 14, 2008, the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, issued a bill of indictment against Sudanese President 'Omar Al-Bashir for war crimes perpetrated during the Darfur conflict. Ocampo also requested that an international warrant be...
In recent weeks, the Qatari media has been slamming the Trump administration's efforts to advance a regional peace plan that has come to be known as the "Deal of the Century." Qatari media reports and articles about this plan have described it as serving Israel's interests while ...
The decree issued September 26, 2017 by the Saudi King, which lifted the ban on women driving in the kingdom, sparked a storm of reactions in the government media and on Saudi social media accounts. The government media reported extensively on responses welcoming the decision, wh...
NATO's
eastward enlargement and the recent deployment of NATO's ballistic missile
defense system in Eastern Europe has been a featured topic of anti-NATO
cartoons in pro-Kremlin media outlets.[1] The
following is a sampling of such cartoons published in Russia's government-funded...
Introduction
On April 28, 2016, the Syrian army, along
with Russian and Iranian forces, launched a crushing assault on the city of
Aleppo that included massive airstrikes that lasted one week and inflicted
hundreds of casualties. The assault came after some two months of a cess...
Introduction
Political cartoons can currently
be found in only a few independent media outlets, such as Polit.ru and Svoboda.org,
and in some pro-Kremlin websites and newspapers, such as RIA Novosti,[1] Sputnik International,[2] and Sharzh I
Pero. The
main motif in cartoons ...
On March 14, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin
announced that the following day Russia would begin withdrawing most its forces
from Syria, stating that they had accomplished most of their objectives there.
He added that some Russian forces would remain at the Hmeymim airbase...
Introduction
On February 1, 2015, the Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published a cartoon by illustrator Mohammad Sabaaneh of a man with a heart-shaped shoulder bag standing in an aura of light atop the Earth and scattering droplets of light. The cartoon is titled "Our Mast...
Sabir Nazar's cartoon on Pakistani conspiracy theories (Courtesy: Viewpointonline.net)
Introduction
Over the past few years, Sabir Nazar has emerged as Pakistan's best known cartoonist for drawing a series of cartoons that take a sharply critical look at religious orthodo...
Numerous cartoons have been published recently in the Arab media in response to the escalation of the Syrian crisis following Bashar Assad's reported chemical attack near Damascus on August 21, 2013, and to the U.S.'s preparations for a possible military attack in Syria in reacti...
Introduction This paper, the third in a series on the image of the Jew in the eyes of Iran's Islamic regime, deals with the Jew as reflected in cartoons published on official Iranian websites, and compares these cartoons with classic antisemitic European caricatures and depictio...
Introduction The topic of gender and women's status in Saudi Arabia is complex and fascinating, and poses a difficult task for researchers. Saudi society, being a traditional, conservative and closed society, does not enable easy access to those seeking to reveal its secrets. In ...
Introduction
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has accused Israel of being behind clashes, beginning October 9, 2011, between Coptic protestors and military and police forces outside the Maspero television building in Cairo, in which 24 were killed, including soldiers, and hundred...
Introduction Among other manifestations, tensions between the Gulf states and Iran were reflected through cartoons. The Gulf, and especially Saudi, press, including its London-based newspapers, published numerous cartoons condemning Iran and depicting it as interfering in Middle...
Introduction
There was a conspicuous absence of articles in the Arab press on the June 12, 2009 Iranian elections and the subsequent wave of public protests. [1] This dearth of opinion articles on the events in Iran as they unfolded sharply contrasted with the abundance o...
Numerous cartoons recently published in the Arab press dealt with the Hamas takeover of Gaza.
Some of the cartoons condemned the brutal murders perpetrated by Hamas, implied that they have led the movement, as well as the Palestinian cause, to a dead end, and presented the fi...
Among the cartoons published in the Arab and Iranian press are cartoons of antisemitic character. These contain a number of recurring themes: they often represent the Jews as long-nosed characters of ultra-orthodox appearance, as the killers of Christ, as serpents or as Nazi sold...
The two terrorist attacks on April 10, 2007 in Casablanca, Morocco, and the April 11, 2007 bombing in the Algerian capital were harshly condemned in the Arab world. This was clearly reflected in cartoons published in Arab newspapers, many of which dealt with various aspects of Is...
Introduction
Algerian cartoonist Ali Dilem was born in 1967 in El-Harrach, a suburb of Algiers, and is of Kabyle origin. He studied at the National Art School in Algiers. [1] Dilem began his career as a cartoonist for the Algerian Communist weekly Alger Republican. In 19...
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 have brought to the head of the Arab agenda issues that the Arab regimes have tried for years to suppress. Like the issue of Islamic terrorism, which forced the Arab regimes to deal with all aspects connected to it (such as extremist religious educat...
In a 2011 episode of his religious TV show, Kuwaiti preacher Nabil Al-Awadi claimed that there was a Jewish-Freemason conspiracy aimed at instilling un-Islamic messages in the mind of children through popular animated films. "The whole world has turned SpongeBob," he complained. ...
Palestine Today TV broadcast a report on the third International Holocaust Cartoon Contest taking place in Tehran, in which it claimed that the contest has "nothing to do with antisemitism" and that "its only goal was to present the current holocaust, being perpetrated by the Isr...
On May 15, Al-Alam TV broadcast a report on the opening of the third International Holocaust Cartoon Contest in Tehran. The exhibition features caricatures of Israeli PM Netanyahu, comparing him to Hitler and to ISIS terrorists. The organizer, Shojai Tabtabai, said that the exhib...
In an animated video-clip posted on the Internet on April 11, 2015 by "Fadhaeh Al-'Ilmaniyya", a pro-ISIS group of media activists, shows President Obama begging for mercy before being beheaded by ISIS executioner Jihadi John. At the end of the animated film, Obama is shown awake...
Following are excerpts from an anti-France demonstration in Iran, which aired on FarsNews on January 19, 2015: Inscription on the palm of the an Iranian demonstrator "Death to France" Female Iranian demonstrators: Death to France! Death to France! Prayers upon the Prophet Muh...
In a TV interview renowned Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat recounted details of his torture and attempted assassination following his criticism of "the president, the secret services, the Baath Party, and the mafia gangs operating in Syria." Farzat, who is currently in exile in Kuwa...
Following are excerpts from a Hamas cartoon promoting the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on October 11, 2013: Narrator: As I have told you, there were times when the Al-Qassam Brigades had to work hard to obtain the means to oppose the occupation and in...
Following are excerpts from “Raids of the Prophet,” an Egyptian animated series which aired on Palestinian Authority TV on July 15-17, 2013: Jews of the Qaynuqa’ tribe conferring Nawfal, member of the Qaynuqa’ tribe: The Muslims have grown stronger and have become mighty. Anot...
Following is an excerpt from a TV report on the "Occupy Wall Street International Cartoon Festival" in Iran, which aired on Press TV and was posted on Youtube on July 9, 2012. Reporter: A cartoon festival [was held] in Tehran to support the Occupy Wall Street movement in the Uni...
Following are excerpts from footage aired by Al-Arabiya TV, in which Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farazat is shown in hospital, after having been kidnapped and beaten by the Syrian security forces. The footage aired on August 26, 2011. TV anchor: Following is footage, obtai...
Following are excerpts from an interview with Syrian cartoonist Ali Farazat, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on August 4, 2011: Ali Farazat: Lebanon is held by prisoner by a certain group, as is known by all. Interviewer: You mean Hizbullah… Ali Farazat: Exactly. Even the go...
Following are excerpts of cartoons posted on an Iranian website called "Holocartoons," posted on the Internet in August 2010. Cartoon showing Jews putting themselves into gas chambers, with the number of victims constantly rising until it reaches six million. Caption: “The ...
Following are excerpts from an interview with Kuwaiti poet Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shimri, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on December 26, 2010: Interviewer: You appeared on a radio show, and said that you refused to defend the Prophet Muhammad, during the crisis of the offensive carto...
Following are excerpts from a Hamas TV cartoon depicting the Koran-based story of Jews being transformed into apes. The cartoon aired on Al-Aqsa TV on August 25, 2010.
Grandfather: Let's finish the story, Majed, and see what scheme the corrupt [Jews] devised.
...
Following are excerpts from the Hamas TV Children’s Show “The Pioneers of Tomorrow”, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on December 4, 2009. Child host Saraa Barhoum: Today, we will talk about education in Islam, and how we teach our children values, morality, and good manners, Nassur....
yotFollowing are excerpts from a Hamas children's show, "The Pioneers of Tomorrow", which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on February 22, 2008: Child host Saraa Barhoum: Amani, you've seen the kind of attack that the West launched against the Prophet Muhammad. What do you have to say on beha...
Following are excerpts from an Iranian TV report on an Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest. The report aired on the Iranian news channel (IRINN) on September 20, 2006. Reporter: In response to the Danish cartoonist who published a cartoon which was insulting to the Prophet Muhammad...
Following are excerpts from a news report on an exhibition of Holocaust cartoons in Tehran, which aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on August 17, 2006. Reporter: As the war in South Lebanon comes to an end, the Holocaust cartoon exhibition is held. It is attended by artis...
Following are excerpts from an interview with Syrian cartoonist and newspaper editor Ali Farazat, aired on Al-Jazeera TV on April 30, 2006. Interviewer: When our guest founded Addomari, an independent satirical weekly in Syria, he enjoyed the personal support of President Bashar ...
Following are excerpts of a speech delivered in English by Kuwaiti cleric Sheik Tareq Al-Suweidan, Director-General of Al-Risala TV, at the Copenhagen convention. The speech, which aired on Al-Risala TV on March 31, 2006, was delivered in English, and is transcribed by MEMRI TV. ...
Following are excerpts from a speech by Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, which aired on Channel 1 of the Iranian TV on February 7, 2006. Ali Khamenei: The freedom of speech about which the [Westerners] talk so much does not permit anyone to doubt the myth about the massacre of the Je...
Following are excerpts from an address by Qatari university lecturer Ali Muhi Al-Din Al-Qardaghi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 3, 2006. Al-Qardaghi: We must realize that something bigger than this [cartoon] incident lies behind this campaign. The Zionism and the extre...
