And Then God Created the Middle East and Said ‘Let There be Breaking News and Analysis’ – a Africa interest event taking place on 2017-11-06 18:30:00 in United Kingdom
The Middle East is the mysterious land of veils, minarets and Orientalist clichés. Karl Sharro, aka Karl reMarks, talks about his six year journey of satirising how his enchanted native land is represented in Western media and punditry.
From the Arab Spring to the rise and decline of ISIS, Sharro discusses how his online alter ego tackled those delicate topics in tweets, blog posts, memes, animations and badly-drawn cartoons. From a more realistic James Bond movie that depicts him delivering a shipment of tear gas to a repressive regime to his 'one sentence explanation of the rise of ISIS', the talk will cover an eclectic range of subject matter. It closes with Sharro's Occidentalist work, as he returns the favour to the West in the aftermath of Brexit and Trump.
Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks), also known as Karl reMarks, is an architect and leading satirist and commentator on the Middle East.
The LSE Middle East Centre (@LSEMiddleEast) builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and North Africa and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region carried out at LSE.
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at London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street City of London United Kingdom – Add your South African Event here.
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