Oum Cartoon

A recent artist that they’ve put on there is named Andeel who is a cartoonist for an independent Egyptian news outlet called Mada Masr. Many of the cartoons presented on the blog center around Trump and how the ways that he affecting the Middle Eastern world. This is especially important and couldn’t come at a better time because their cartoons at the moment are centered around none other than the unfortunate election of The “Great” Donald Trump. For example, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi who is the Egyptian president, met up with Trump for the United Nations General Assembly, and the cartoon is representative of this because it shows the two face to face as if they’re ready to battle.

There is another drawing that shows them rolling up their sleeves side by side, with Sisi looking up to him and with the city is smoke and mess behind them, and this image is representative of the situation where Sisi is complimenting Trump and becoming friendly with him, with many interpreting the cartoon as Sisi encouraging the destruction Trump is causing and the fact that they can make the flames arise from the smoke rather than clearing it out.

Much of Andeel's work is included in this comic blog. Andeel was born in 1986 in Kafr al-Sheikh. At an early age he moved to Cairo and became a professional cartoonist and made some short films as well. He also writes tv scripts, designs newspaper and is the co-founder of "Tok Tok" comics magazine.
He is now 27 and has been making cartoons professionally since he was 17. Most of his work consists of political satire and a lot of his work has been influenced by Salah Jaheen who is an Egyptian cartoonist whom his father introduced to him.

This is Andeel's Oum Cartoon, which comes out in the the magazine Mada Masr. This one is of particular interest because it is the name of the blog and a lot of his artwork in this blog has to do with her. The name of the person singing in this picture is Oum Kalthoum. Oum (Umm) Kalthoum was one of the most famous and influential Egyptian singers. What Andeel is trying to depict through this illustration is primarily political commentary and especially social criticism on account on one of the men sitting among the audience using his cellphone while one of the most important characters in Egyptian history is performing right in front of them, and with this he is trying to reflect what society has come to.

This was the performance which inspired Andeel to draw a social cartoon about Oum. With this, ultimately he was trying to send the meassage that people need to get their heads out of their techonology and appreciate true art and talent. It's a social message, just like a lot of the other artists/cartoonists are drawing their inspiration from.

Another cartoonist from Egypt is named Islam Gawish, whose cartoon illustrations are demonstrating Trump eager to know the nuclear codes to bomb different countries, some that are mentioned are the Middle East, Russia, and Iran. In the cartoon he depicts captions that Trump chooses to bomb all the countries.

This is another cartoon that revolves around social commentary. This was drawn by an artist named Hassan Sharif, who just passed away this year. "His works comment on consumer culture and whimsically express how mass-produced objects are at once ephemeral and essential components of our everyday life."

Hassan Sharif was didn't just draw political and social cartoons, in fact, what most stood out from all of his work are his conceptual art. However, his cartooning/drawing career started from his because he would draw them for newspaper called Akhbar Dubai. There have been many suggestions that his conceptual and abstract work are somehow connected to his one-panel cartoons. He used to live and work in Dubai, United Arab Emirates