Publications

Publication details [#65617]

Mulder, Stephennie. 2018. Beeshu’s Laugh. The Arts of Satire in the Syrian Uprising. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 11 (2) : 174–195.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | communication | culture | empathy | laughter

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper claims that self-satire—and the ‘imbroglio’ it unveils, subjects and shows —makes a clear Syrian popular artistic output form whose aim is to make a sense of agency and elicit intra-communal and public empathy with the Syrian people's pain.