Go, Look: The Animation/Cartoon War, From Israel To ISIS To Iran

Robert Mackey has the broadest of survey articles up here at the New York Times about recent cartoon and animation-making in the wider Middle East by various geopolitical participants basically on the subject of ISIS, yet with so many partnerships and claims thrown in a lot of other topics are roped in. It's worth knowing about and seeing as much of it as you can; the article is lighter on the conclusions that other English-language articles have brought to the table.

The one line of reasoning that comes out in a lot of these articles is to take a line of cartoon-making and seeing it as a truer expression of the country's soul than another avenue of speaking out, or another political opportunity taken. Nation-states are usually a bit more complicated than that, and can contain with its borders multiple aims and designs and shortcomings and flourishes. Tread carefully.
 
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