Karl Sharro: “And then God created the Middle East”

The Middle East is a mysterious land of veils, minarets, and Orientalist clichés. Karl Sharro, aka Karl reMarks, talks about his seven year journey of satirizing how his enchanted native land is represented in Western media and punditry. From the Arab Spring to the rise and decline of ISIS, Sharro discusses how his online alter ego tackled those delicate topics in tweets, blog posts, memes, animations, and badly-drawn cartoons. Moderated by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi.