Saturday, October 05, 2013

Nasser's political culture

Growing up, we used to read the available Arabic comic books.  The Egyptian comic magazine, Mickey [Mouse], often carried political content especially after the 1967 defeat.  They featured pictures and tributes to the heroes of the Vietnamese Revolution.  You often got a gift or a toy with the magazine, and many had political symbolism, like paper hats made to resemble the stray hats of Vietnamese peasants.  This was the political culture that I grew up with.  Many Arabs now grow up on the culture of worship of billionaires.