ABSTRACT
The question that keeps being asked by many Americans is: Why do many Egyptians/Arabs hate us so much? The starting point to answer this question is to examine how Egypt’s media frame the US.
This chapter systematically analyses a number of editorial cartoons published between 2013 and 2016 that portray the US, with the purpose of identifying how the US is (mis)represented in the Egyptian media. Given their popularity and omnipresence in the media, one, as laid out in Chapter 2, would naturally assume that political cartoons must shape and strengthen the worldview of members of the public. Crucially, the manner in which an issue is “pictorially framed” may profoundly influence viewers’ perceptions.
