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.

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.

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Mediating National Identities in Arab Animation; 3. Arab Animated Sitcoms: Vehicles For The Mediation Of Critical Notions Of National Identities; 4. Approaches To Pan-Arab Identities; 5. Advocating Islamic Identities In Arab Animated Cartoons; 6. The Arab Spring Of Animation; 7. Epilogue: Can Arab Animation Go Global?; References.