Art & Design
For nearly seven decades, Ahmed Toughan drew Egypt as it saw itself and as it wished it did not; infected with colonial powers and presidents, weary bureaucrats and struggling families, each captured in a few lines that readers could grasp at a glance. Toughan, one of the country’s most prominent editorial cartoonists, died on 12 November 2014, at 88, after a fight with cancer. He had published more than 50,000 cartoons, and months earlier he had received the Nile Award,Egypt's…
