Anatomy of the 1936––39 Revolt: Images of the Body in Political Cartoons of Mandatory Palestine
This article analyzes body images in political cartoons during the 1936––1939 Arab Revolt. By deciphering the visual messages in the political cartoons of two newspapers——the Arabic Filastin and the Hebrew Davar ——the article examines how body representations portray stereotypes of rivals and reveal assumptions about and relations between conflicting parties. Visual imagery maintained its impact by illustrating nationalist attitudes, critiques, and goals. In addition to being referents to a period not well documented in images, cartoons are also potent historical sources for reconstructing a sociopolitical history of Palestine.
The Muslim brothers and the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936–39
It is commonly held that the Society of the Muslim Brothers (Jam'iyyat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin) first appeared as an influential force on the Egyptian scene in the years 1933-39. The many studies of this important movement, and the memoirs of its leaders, show a significant turning-point in the Society's evolution during this formative phase. Members and branches increased rapidly, and its activities were broadened to encompass various spheres and subjects, until it extended over all of Egypt. The Society's propaganda and indoctrination apparatus; its channfels of communication; the special semi-military missionary bodies, methods of operation and fighting; the hierarchical structure within which the Society was organized and administered, subject to the absolute control and discipline of the 'General Guide' (al-murshid al-'amm) all these were established and began to take shape during these key years of the 1930s. At the end of this formative period, this same organizational impetus led the Society to translate its growing religio-social power into genuine political power, and thus to become an important factor on the domestic Egyptian political scene.' R. P. Mitchell, who rightly defined this period in the Society's history as 'the rise to power', characterized its rapid growth during the 1930s as follows:
A slowly rotating coil system for AC field measurements of Fermilab Booster correctors
A method for measurement of rapidly changing magnetic fields has been developed and applied to the testing of new room temperature corrector packages designed for the Fermilab Booster Synchrotron. The method is based on fast digitization of a slowly rotating tangential coil probe, with analysis combining the measured coil voltages across a set of successive magnet current cycles. This paper presents results on the field quality measured for the normal and skew dipole, quadrupole, and sextupole elements in several of these corrector packages.