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Traces connections between visual expression and political dissent, highlighting themes of gendered injustice, harassment, and strategies for reclaiming public space amid increased monitoring and surveillance. Positions artivism as a distinct mode of activism shaped by political, economic, social, and cultural transformations, with attention to gendered representations in urban life.","Arab Region  \nThe World Humanities Report  \nComix as Artivism: The Intersection between Art and Critique  \nHana Shaltout  \nThe World Humanities Report is a project of the Consortium of Humanities Centersand Institutes (CHCI), in collaboration with the International Council for Philosophy and the Human Science (CIPSH). The views expressed in the contributions to the World Humanities Report are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editors, scientific committee, or staff of CHCI.  \nThe World Humanities Report gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  \n© 2023 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System  \nThis work carries a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. This license permits you to copy, distribute, and display this work as long as you mention and link back to the World Humanities Report, attribute the work appropriately (including both author and title), and do not adapt the content or use it commercially. For details, visit [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/).  \nThis publication is available online at [https://worldhumanitiesreport.org](https://worldhumanitiesreport.org).  \nSuggested citation:  \nShaltout, Hana. Comix as Artivism: The Intersection between Art and Critique. World Humanities Report, CHCI, 2023.  \nMore information about the author can be found at the end of this document.  \nComix as Artivism: The Intersection between Art and Critique  \nHana Shaltout Arab Council for the Social Sciences; University of Sussex  \nSince the 2011 uprisings in Egypt, discussions around the emancipatory potential of artwork and its role in protest or political dissent have become common. The mass protests calling for the fall of the regime, under the unifying chant“al-Sha ͑ab yurid isqat al-Nizam” (the people want the fall of the regime) led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. People protested the state’sinjustices, the socioeconomic hardships they caused, and their corrupt practices, rallying around “Aish, ḥorreya,͑adala ijtima͑eya” (bread, freedom, and social justice).1 They expressed their desires through visual art, cinema, memes, satire, music, theatrical performance, comics, books, and poetry.2 Scholars turned to analyzing the “artivism” that accompanied other forms of resistance and protest.3 I examine how Egyptian feminists have used the art of comix—x instead of c  \n1 For more information about the uprising and the role of music, see Dalia Wahdan,“Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution,” in The Political Aesthetics of Global Protest: The Arab Spring and Beyond, ed. Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb, and Kathryn SpellmanPoots (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Aga Khan University, 2014), 53–67.  \n2 Nicola Pratt,“Making Sense of the Egyptian Revolution in and through Popular Culture,”International Journal of Middle East Studies 52, no. 3 (2020): 531–35, [https://doi.org/10.1017/](https://doi.org/10.1017/)[ ](https://doi.org/10.1017/)S0020743820000690 .  \n3 Farida Makar,“‘Let Them Have Some Fun’: Political and Artistic Forms of Expression in the Egyptian Revolution,” Mediterranean Politics 16, no. 2 (2011): 307–12, [https://doi.org/10.1080](https://doi.org/10.1080)[ ](https://doi.org/10.1080)/13629395.2011.583755; Ted Swedenburg,“Egypt’s Music of Protest: From Sayyid Darwish to DJ Haha,” Middle East Report 265 (Winter 2012): 39–43; Shaaban Yusuf, “Poetry and the January 25 Revolution: Introduction and Selected Poems,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 32 (2012): 312–37; Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman, Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook (New York: Routledge, 2013); Tilia Korpe,“Artivism in Tunis: Music and Art as Tools of Creative Resistance and the Cultural Re:mixing of a Revolution” (MA thesis, Malmö University, 2013); Anastasia Valassopolous and Dalia Said Most","cbCaivU9QwfVdurp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivU9QwfVdurp","pdf",5777347,1,22,"English","en",105,"# Comix as Artivism: The Intersection between Art and Critique\n## Contextualizing Artivism","[{\"question\":\"Why did discussions of art’s emancipatory potential intensify after the 2011 uprisings in Egypt?\",\"answer\":\"The mass protests around calls for regime change and social justice popularized attention to how artworks and other cultural forms express dissent and desire for political transformation.\"},{\"question\":\"What issues do feminist artivists address through artivism in Egypt?\",\"answer\":\"They tackle sexual assault and harassment, including tactics used to discourage women from protesting in public spaces.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the discussion connect artivism to reclaiming public space?\",\"answer\":\"As physical and virtual spaces shrink and are monitored, reclaiming public space becomes a key concern addressed through cultural and visual forms of resistance, including Egyptian comix.\"}]","Comix as Artivism: The Intersection between Art and Critique - 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