Volume 7 (2026), Issue 1

The oldest known caricatures of Ottoman humour press in Istanbul were published in Zuarchakhos ‘Joker’ (1856), an Armeno-Turkish humour gazette written in Turkish using Armenian script. It is also the oldest known humour gazette in Turkish. This...

The Ottoman Empire is examined through the eyes of the satirical press in the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire from 1908 to 1914. A view from the periphery and through visual satire offers a more encompassing understanding of world...

The cartoonist Rifqī (died 1939?) began his career around 1919 in Istanbul. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, he emigrated to Italy and later to Egypt to continue his work there. Little is known about his biography, including his name. In...

This article examines caricatures printed in the Lebanese newspaper al-Maʿraḍ (‘The Exhibition’), published by Michel Zaccour (1896–1937) in Beirut from 1921 to 1936. Situating these images within the socio-political dynamics of Lebanon...

The contribution deals with caricatures that depict and thematise ideas about the future and compares examples from Istanbul and Cairo. Both Ottoman-Turkish and Egyptian journals contain manifold examples of caricatures that could be characterised...