What is it about?
Why does satire exist? In an age of Trump, people discuss how satire is related to the nature of politics. This argues the same in Bahrain, but also argues that satire is not necessarily revolutionary, because it requires authoritarian absurdity to be fully realised
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Why is it important?
Very little work on satire is done on the Gulf
Perspectives
It contains a lot of comedy...
Dr. Marc Owen Jones
Northwestern University
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This page is a summary of: Satire, social media and revolutionary cultural production in the Bahrain uprising: From utopian fiction to political satire, Communication and the Public, May 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2057047317706372.
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