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Episode Synopsis "Picturing atrocity: visual representations of ISIS in Arabic political cartoons"
In this episode of GV360 Weekly we will be talking to Prof. Sadam Issa on how ISIS is Imagined and Pictured by several Independent Artists in local Arab Newspapers. Prof. Issa is a scholar of Arabic and an Assistant Professor at the Linguistics Department of Michigan State University. His research interests range from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, to research on anxiety in the classroom, the use of technology, visual rhetoric, and lastly, political cartoons. He has also published articles in a number of journals including: Al-'Arabiyya, Pragmatics and Society, Arabic Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Politeness Research, Popular Music and Society, Visual Studies, and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is currently writing a book on Arabic political cartoons.
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