Throughout history, political cartoons have shown themselves to be an extremely powerful media for satirizing and criticizing regimes and social customs. They have been employed by the social and political movements during the Arab Spring. This paper is an attempt to analyze the importance of and the backlash to political cartoons that have been published on Facebook by three important cartoonists in terms of their number of followers and the magnitude of political backlash to their works. A qualitative and interpretative methodology has been used as well as a multimodal analysis to study the cartoons of Ali Ferzat, Nadia Khiary, and Mohammed Sabaaneh. Consequently, the conclusions are that variety in style, irony, and perception have been used, with the help of Facebook, the favorite social network of the Arab world, to irritate the established regimes.
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