"Digital Gulliver: Why Al-Nadim Al-Raqmi's Satire Resembles a 21st-Century Version of Gulliver's Travels"
"Digital Gulliver: Why Al Nadim Al-Raqmi's Satire Resembles a 21st-Century Version of Gulliver's Travels" Introduction to the Chapter When Jonathan Swift published "Gulliver's Travels" in 1726, he was not merely presenting an adventure story for children, but offering a scathing critique of European society under the guise of fantasy. Gulliver was not a traditional hero, but a mobile mirror reflecting the absurdity of the world around him. Each journey revealed a different face of human madness: pettiness in Lilliput, ugliness in Brobdingnag, scientific insanity in Balnibarbi, and savagery in the land of the Houyhnhnms. This is precisely what Al-Nadim Al-Raqmi does, but in the twenty-first century. He is the Digital Gulliver who roams the worlds of Arab and international politics, not aboard a ship, but via the X platform and his blog. Each of his texts is a new voyage into a different world: Shablanga, Greater Israel, Trump's Washington, besieged T...