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Media Shrapnel, Cartooning as Urgent Care: Emergency Witnessing in Mazen Kerbaj’s Gaza in My Phone
by Dr. Velebita Koričančić, Mexico City Content advisory: This book provides graphic depictions (this review provides textual descriptions) and traumas of war. In Gaza in My Phone, Lebanese, Berlin-based artist Mazen Kerbaj turns to political cartooning in response to Israel’s war on Gaza from October 2023 onward, drawing images of Palestinian injury that reach him through his phone. From its cover, the book takes a position on how to witness atrocities committed against Palestinians: inside the frame of a phone, a burning building explodes, yet no injured human body appears. Care begins here as a decision about what not to… Read More

