Picturing the <i>Charlie Hebdo</i> Incident in Arabic Political Cartoons

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Picturing the Charlie Hebdo Incident in Arabic Political Cartoons

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Author(s): Sadam Issa

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Keywords: Charlie Hebdo incident , Arabic political cartoons, visual art, Palestinian identity, imagined community, self-categorization

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[1] Alhassan, Amin (2008). The Twelve Cartoons: A Discursive Inquiry. In Transnational Media Events: The Mohammed Cartoons and the Imagined Clash of Civilizations , eds. Elisabeth Eide, Risto Kunelius, and Angela Phillips. Göteborg: Nordicom.

[2] Anderson, Benedict (1991). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . New York, NY, and London: Verso.

[3] Barthes, Ronald (1972). Mythologies . Trans. Annette Lavers. New York, NY: Hill & Wang.

[4] Barthes, Ronald (1977). Image, Music, Text . London: Fontana.

[5] Barthes, Ronald (1981). Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography . New York, NY: Hill & Wang.

[6] Baumann, Gerd (1996). Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multi-Ethnic London . Cambridge, New York, NY, and Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cambridge University Press.

[7] Billig, Michael (1996). Nationalism as an International Ideology: Imagining the Nation, Others and the World of Nations. In Changing European Identities , eds. Evanthia Lyons and Glynis M. Breakwell. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

[8] Bowman, Glenn (1993). Antagonism and Identity in Former Yugolsavia: Introduction. Journal of Area Studies , 1(3), 35–39.

[9] Chalaniova, Daniela (2014). Turn the Other Greek. How the Eurozone Crisis Changes the Media Image of Greeks and What Do the Visual Representations of Greeks Tell Us about European Identity? In Constructing and Communicating Europe , eds. Olga Gyarfasova and Karin Liebhart. Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 19–51.

[10] de Saussure, Ferdinand ([1916] 1983). Course in General Linguistics . Trans. Roy Harris. London: Duckworth.

[11] Eco, Umberto (1976). A Theory of Semiotics . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

[12] Eide, Elisabeth, Kunelius, Risto, and Phillips, Angela (2008). Transnational Media Events: The Mohammed Cartoons and the Imagined Clash of Civilizations . Göteborg: Nordicom.

[13] Eko, Lyombe (2007). It's a Political Jungle Out There: How Four African Newspaper Cartoons Dehumanized and “Deterritorialized” African Political Leaders in the Post-Cold War Era. International Communication Gazette , 69(3), 219–238.

[14] El Refaie, Elisabeth (2003). Understanding Visual Metaphor: the Example of Newspaper Cartoons. Visual Communication , 2, 75–95.

[15] Falah, Ghazi-Walid, Flint, Colin, and Virginie, Mamadouh (2006). Just War and Extraterritoriality: The Popular Geopolitics of the United States' War on Iraq as Reflected in Newspapers of the Arab World. Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 96(1), 142–164.

[16] Fauconnier, Gilles and Turner, Mark (2002). The Way We Think . New York, NY: Basic Books.

[17] Forceville, Charles and Urios-Aparisi, Eduardo (2009). Multimodal Metaphor . New York, NY, and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

[18] Giarelli, Ellen (2006). Images of Cloning and Stem Cell Research in Editorial Cartoons in the United States. Qualitative Health Research , 16(1), 61–78.

[19] Giarelli, Ellen and Tulman, Lorraine (2003). Methodological Issues in the Use of Published Cartoons as Data. Qualitative Health Research , 13(7), 945–956.

[20] Givton, Dan (2001). “Grounded Theory.” In Naama Sabar, ed., Genres and Traditions in Qualitative Research (Tel-Aviv: Zmora Bitan).

[21] Guba, Egon G. (1978). Toward a Methodology of Naturalistic Inquiry in Educational Evaluation . CSE Monograph Series in Evaluation, 8. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Center for the Study of Evaluation.

[22] Hansen, Lene (2006). Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War . London: Routledge.

[23] Hansen, Lene (2011). Theorizing the Image for Security Studies: Visual Securitization and the Muhammad Cartoon Crisis. European Journal of International Relations , 17(1), 51–74.

[24] Jokisch, Benjamin (2007). Islamic Imperial Law: Harun-Al-Rashid's Codification Project . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

[25] Jørgensen, Signe Kjær (2012). Not Just Any Order! Revealing Identity Constructions of Muslims in the Mohammad Cartoons. Journal of Language and Politics , 11(3), 382–404.

[26] Keen, Sam (1991). Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination . San Francisco, CA: Harper.

[27] Kosebalaban, Hasan (2007). The Permanent “Other”? Turkey and the Question of European Identity. Mediterranean Quarterly , 18(4), 87–111.

[28] Litvak, Meir (2009). Palestinian Collective Memory and National Identity . New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

[29] Manor-Tamam, Keren (2003). Images in Times of Conflict: Al-Aqsa Intifada, as Reflected in Palestinian and Israeli Caricatures . Jerusalem, Israel: Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[30] Mazid, Bahaa-Eddin (2008). Cowboy and Misanthrope: A Critical (Discourse) Analysis of Bush and Bin Laden Cartoons. Discourse & Communication , 2, 433–457.

[31] Meyer, John C. (2000). Humor as a Double-Edged Sword: Four Functions of Humor in Communication. Communication Theory , 10(3), 310–331.

[32] Miera, Frauke and Pala, Valerie Sala (2009). The Construction of Islam as a Public Issue in Western European Countries through the Prism of the Muhammad Cartoons Controversy: A Comparison between France and Germany. Ethnicities , 9(3), 383–408.

[33] Mitchell, W. J. T. (1994). Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

[34] Mitchell, W. J. T. (2005). What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

[35] Mock, Steven J. (2012). Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

[36] Müller, Marion G. and Özcan, Esra (2007). The Political Iconography of Muhammad Cartoons: Understanding Cultural Conflict and Political Action. Political Studies , 40, 287–291.

[37] Najjar, Aide A. (1980). The Arabic Press and Nationalism in Palestine: 1920–1948 (Dissertation). New York, NY: Syracuse University.

[38] Öhner, Vrääth, Pribersky, Andreas, Schmale, Wolfgang, and Uhl, Heidemarie (2005). Europa-Bilder . Budapest: StudienVerlag.

[39] Olesen, Thomas (2009). The Muhammad Cartoons Conflict and Transnational Activism. Ethnicities , 9(3), 409–426.

[40] Rumelili, Bahar (2004). Constructing Identity and Relating to Difference: Understanding the EU's Mode of Differentiation. Review of International Studies , 30(1), 27–47.

[41] Said, Edward (1995). Orientalism . London: Penguin.

[42] Strinati, Dominic (2005). Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture . London: Routledge.

[43] Strömbäck, Jesper, Shehata, Adam, and Dimitrova, Daniela V. (2008). Framing the Mohammad Cartoons Issue: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Swedish and US Press. Global Media and Communication , 4(2), 117–138.

[44] Tripp, Charles (2013). The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

[45] Turner, John C. (1987). Rediscovering the Social Group: A Self-Categorization Theory . Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

[46] Vuorinen, Marja (2012). Enemy Images in War Propaganda . Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.