“Inside the Margins”: Centering Tirailleurs in Bandes Dessinées
The graphic novels or bandes dessinées out of Africa are a line in the sand of protest and rebellion against European colonialism.
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Interview: Joe Sacco on Gaza
Joe Sacco uses his graphic storytelling in "War on Gaza" to reflect on the events in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
مقتطف من رواية رانية حسين أمين: شخصيات مش متشافة
في روايتها المصورة «شخصيات مش متشافة»، تكتب وترسم رانية حسين أمين عن تلك الشخصيات التي لا نراها، لأننا لا نمعن النظر بما فيه الكفاية، أو لأنها شخصيات تخشى الظهور، مع ذلك، تبدي جميعها رغبة في أن تُرى. في رحلة بين العلاج النفسي وتفاصيل الحياة اليومية، ترينا رانية ما نغض بصرنا…
Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary
Beirut graphic novelist Rawand Issa found she could begin to think more intimately about life and love by studying her mom's chickens, and roosters.
Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization
Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic point always undergoing change.
Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women’s Protest in Iran
Marjane Satrapi's edited anthology "Woman, Life, Freedom" shows that the story of the movement cannot be told with only one voice.
Arab American Teens Come of Age in Nayra and the Djinn
Katie Logan reviews a graphic novel that blends the real world with the fantastical in a coming of age journey.
New Graphic Novel is a Memorial for Holocaust Undesirables
Katie Logan has read "The Undesirables" — a graphic novel set in WW II-era Europe and North Africa.
Inside the Giant Fish—excerpt from Rawand Issa’s graphic novel
In Rawand Issa's "Inside the Giant Fish," a girl looks for her lost memories on a beach that no longer exists.
Hard Work: Kurdish Kolbars or Porters Risk Everything
Clive Bell reviews the latest graphic novel from Mana Neyestani on the hardships of being a Kurdish porter.
TMR Conversations: Mana Neyestani, Graphic Novelist
Malu Halasa interviews the Iranian graphic novelist who like Marjane Satrapi has made France his home as a political refugee.
Squire, the Provocative Graphic Novel That Channels Edward Said
Katie Logan reviews a familiar coming-of-age story elevated by deep thinking about the nature of history, empire and narrative.
The Politics of Wishful Thinking: Deena Mohamed’s Shubeik Lubeik
Katie Logan reviews the much-anticipated English version of the Egyptian graphic novel, a tour de force.
An Interview with with Graphic Memoirist Malaka Gharib
Rusha Rafeek interviews graphic memoirist Malaka Gharib about her Arab American coming of age story.
“A Tunisian Revolt” — the Rebel Power of Arab Comics
Writer-translator Nada Ghosn talks to the illustrator of a new graphic novel recounting one of Tunisia's earliest uprisings, in 1984, presaging the Jasmine Revolution.