Jacob Hoigilt is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. He was previously Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. He has published the monograph Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt as well as in various edited collections and journals.

An engaging read for all those interested in Arab culture, comics, the use of language as a political tool, and forms of artistic expression.

• 1. IntroductionScope and themesThe analysis of comicsStructure of the book2. Mapping the scene3. Resistance against authoritarianism and war: adult comics before 2011A tradition of political critique: War comics in LebanonCritique of authoritarianism in Samandal magazine4. Comics in revolutionary and post-revolutionary EgyptDrawing a revolutionRevolutionary criticism and humour in Egyptian comics5. Gender relationsGender relations: a core issueSlapstick humour and exaggerationsVisual symbolismThe rhetoric of the panelsIn favour of the sensitive man6. Youthfulness and the vernacularThe marginalization of youth in the Arab worldAsserting youthfulnessIndividuality and alienationYouthfulness and the vernacular7. Comics and sociolinguistics: informal literacy, voice and language ideologyInhabiting a third spaceVoiceDiglossia and written ArabicLanguage Ideology and the illusion of zero-sum gamesInformal literacy and the ideology of diglossia8 Conclusion: Ideology, resistance and voiceBibliography

Jacob Hoigilt is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. He was previously Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. He has published the monograph Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt as well as in various edited collections and journals.

An engaging read for all those interested in Arab culture, comics, the use of language as a political tool, and forms of artistic expression.

• 1. IntroductionScope and themesThe analysis of comicsStructure of the book2. Mapping the scene3. Resistance against authoritarianism and war: adult comics before 2011A tradition of political critique: War comics in LebanonCritique of authoritarianism in Samandal magazine4. Comics in revolutionary and post-revolutionary EgyptDrawing a revolutionRevolutionary criticism and humour in Egyptian comics5. Gender relationsGender relations: a core issueSlapstick humour and exaggerationsVisual symbolismThe rhetoric of the panelsIn favour of the sensitive man6. Youthfulness and the vernacularThe marginalization of youth in the Arab worldAsserting youthfulnessIndividuality and alienationYouthfulness and the vernacular7. Comics and sociolinguistics: informal literacy, voice and language ideologyInhabiting a third spaceVoiceDiglossia and written ArabicLanguage Ideology and the illusion of zero-sum gamesInformal literacy and the ideology of diglossia8 Conclusion: Ideology, resistance and voiceBibliography

Jacob Hoigilt is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. He was previously Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. He has published the monograph Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt as well as in various edited collections and journals.

An engaging read for all those interested in Arab culture, comics, the use of language as a political tool, and forms of artistic expression.

• 1. IntroductionScope and themesThe analysis of comicsStructure of the book2. Mapping the scene3. Resistance against authoritarianism and war: adult comics before 2011A tradition of political critique: War comics in LebanonCritique of authoritarianism in Samandal magazine4. Comics in revolutionary and post-revolutionary EgyptDrawing a revolutionRevolutionary criticism and humour in Egyptian comics5. Gender relationsGender relations: a core issueSlapstick humour and exaggerationsVisual symbolismThe rhetoric of the panelsIn favour of the sensitive man6. Youthfulness and the vernacularThe marginalization of youth in the Arab worldAsserting youthfulnessIndividuality and alienationYouthfulness and the vernacular7. Comics and sociolinguistics: informal literacy, voice and language ideologyInhabiting a third spaceVoiceDiglossia and written ArabicLanguage Ideology and the illusion of zero-sum gamesInformal literacy and the ideology of diglossia8 Conclusion: Ideology, resistance and voiceBibliography