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Kollatz, Anna and Wagner, Veruschka (Eds.): Erst lachen, dann denken!/Laugh first, think later! Karikaturen aus dem Nahen Osten, 1850-1940/Caricatures from the Near East, 1850-1940, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS, 2025 (Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg: Kataloge, Volume 18). https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.1608

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06/05/2025

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Anna Kollatz (Ed.), Veruschka Wagner (Ed.)

Erst lachen, dann denken!/Laugh first, think later!

Karikaturen aus dem Nahen Osten, 1850-1940/Caricatures from the Near East, 1850-1940

Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg: Kataloge

Almost exactly 100 years ago, caricature was booming in the Near East: Satirical magazines appeared in Istanbul and Cairo and many other cities, humorously tackling issues that were shaking up society at the time.

Numerous topics are still relevant today: resistance to foreign domination by hegemonic powers, the effects of modern technology, demands for democracy and social debates on gender roles.

The exhibition traces the thematisation of these discourses in the medium of caricature and provides information on the historical background, in particular the growing press and the handling of censorship.

The exhibition presents current research from the project ‘What’s so funny? Caricatures as a sphere of communication in the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman context' (project lead Anna Kollatz and Veruschka Wagner, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation). The contributors are members of the international and interdisciplinary working group ‘Caricatures and Cartoons in a Global Perspective’, which is dedicated to questions of caricature research.

Anna Kollatz is a professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Heidelberg. Her research focuses on social discourses in societies shaped by diversity.

Veruschka Wagner's research interests include Ottoman/Turkish caricatures and slavery in the Ottoman Empire at the Department of Islamic Studies and Near-Eastern Languages at the University of Bonn.

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Table of Contents
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Title
1-2
Content
3
‘Laugh first, think later!’ Caricatures from the Near East, 1850 – 1940
4-5
What – When – Where? Egypt and the Ottoman Empire 1850 – 1940
6-9
Cairo 1927: Dangerous Trams and Young Women at the Wheel
10-13
From Ahmet Rıfkı to ʿAli Rifqi: A Caricaturist’s Life
14-15
The Beginning of the Satirical Press in Egypt: Cairo 1870 – 1930
16-17
Beginnings of the Satirical Press in the Ottoman Empire: Istanbul 1850 – 1920
18-19
Teodor Kasap (1835 – 1897), publisher, journalist, writer, and translator
20-21
Laughter and Morality in the Earliest Ottoman Humoristic Prints
22-23
A Fresh Start: The Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire
24-25
Women in Al-Fukaha: Discussing New Role Models
26-27
Women in Güleryüz (1921 – 1923): Confronting New Role Models
28-29
Fashion as a Sign of Transformation
30-31
Western Tourists and Local Guides
32-33
Looking at the World from the Near East
34-37
Humour Abroad: An International Press Review of Caricatures
38-39
Ottomans in Caricatures of the Russian Empire
40-41
Finland’s View of the Ottoman Empire in International Politics
42-45
Al-Ma‘rad: Fighting for Social Justice in Lebanon, 1921 – 1936
46-47
Constructing Modernity: Architecture and Public Space
48-49
Pin-up or Social Criticism? Turkish Erotic Satirical Magazines 1930 – 1931
50-51
Authors
52-53

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