This course will highlight the question of how the caricature - as a western cultural product which was imported, adapted and incorporated into local Egyptian culture - reflected the East-West encounter during the period of transformation and consolidation of Egyptian national identity, and in the context of anti-colonial resistance to foreign rule. We will examine the nature of the caricature, and its characteristics as an art form. We will discuss briefly its historical development in Europe, and we will devote the main part of the course to a discussion on the process of transfer of the caricature to Egypt. Who were its agents? Which satiric-artistic models were utilized, adapted, and incorporated into the local genre, and which were rejected? These and other questions, all concerning the artistic connections and interactions between Egyptian European caricatures will be discussed, while emphasizing aspects of colonialism, post-colonialism, popular culture, and art.