Jun 21, 2015
Three Egyptian Retellings of the Denshawai Incident
Egyptian artists have consistently returned to the Denshawai Incident of 1906, when British officers hunted domesticated pigeons for sport and then hanged residents accused of fighting back. This paper examines three of these retellings, focusing in particular on Makhlouf's comic strip "Hat al-Hamam" published in the alternative comics magazine Tok Tok in November, 2012.