Khalid Wad Albaih

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"From #Khartoon to #Kopenhagen": Political cartoonist, Soros ARt Fellow 2018, Copenhagen City ICORN guest artist (2017-2019) Khalid Wad Albaih delivered the Global Sudies introduction to our new semester Masters students from Global Studies, IPAP and IDS

Period	31 Aug 2018
Visiting from	ICORN (Denmark)
Visitor degree	Masters
Degree of Recognition	International

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internet
resistance
Social movement
Arab uprisings
political cartoons
identity
Sudan
Romania
Qatar
Arab protesters
Muhammad cartoons

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“If you were to ask me where I’m from, I would say I’m from Internet,” says Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih. “Identity is a deep question - with no single answer. It’s really hard to be a 30-year old living with an identity crisis. I’m African yet I’m Arab and Muslim. Living in Sudan I lived under a government where Arabs and Muslims ruled - yet most of Sudan is not Arab or Muslim. I’ve lived as an oppressor and as an oppressed.” Khalid Albaih is a Political cartoonist, that has inspired discontented youth across the Arab world through his online work. But cartooning, while an inspiration to Arab protesters, can also foment anger. Demonstrations broke out across the world in 2006 after a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published editorial cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. In his ISE lecture Khalid Albaih will nuance the controversies, politics and complications that very simple graphic representations of our realities can trigger across the world.

Khalid Wad Albaih

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