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 the anti-colonial resistance to the British foreign rule (1882-1952). We will first examine the nature of the caricature, and its characteristics as an art form, in the context of its development in Europe. The main part of the course will be devoted to the discussion of the processes of transfer of the caricature to Egypt: Who were its agents? What can be recognized in the Egyptian genre as imported from its Western models? 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 the Egyptian cultural sphere and the European one—will be discussed  through a wide spectrum of historical sources.