Political Cartoons- Al-Nida' and Al-Qabas International newspapers

Kuwait and Iraq are the focus of this collection of political cartoons published by Al-Nida' and Al-Qabas International newspapers. The dataset contains all available cartoons from the period of the 1990-1991 Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. Author Anon published the 399.3 MB ZIP archive under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Analyze visual rhetoric and propaganda techniques based on the described political cartoons.
• Study media representation of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait based on the described newspaper content.
• Conduct historical research on Middle Eastern political satire based on the described source material.
• Train image recognition models on historical cartoon styles based on the described visual data.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific historical event (1990-1991 Iraqi occupation of Kuwait).
• Contains all available cartoons from two named newspapers for the period.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Al-Nida' and Al-Qabas International newspapers

Collection Method

Collection of all available published political cartoons.

Time Range

1990-1991

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 03:07:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kuwait, Iraq, Middle East