Animation in Saudi Arabia: Shifting the Entertainment Agenda

Malik Nejer is one of Saudi Arabia’s top cartoonists and force behind the hit animated YouTube series, “Masameer.” He was drawing animations for an advertising agency, while producing animated videos for YouTube on the side, when floods claimed the lives of over a hundred people in Jeddah in 2009.

Animation in Saudi Arabia: Shifting the Entertainment Agenda
Animation still from Myrkott Studio. Photo courtesy of Malik Nejer.

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