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.
Category: Comix
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.
Lebanon at the Point of Drowning in Its Own…
Young Lebanese comic writer-illustrator duo Raja Abu Kasm and Rahil Mohsin convey what they think of corruption and their disintegrating country.
How to Hide in Lebanon as a Western Foreigner
Translators Nadiyah Abdullatif and Anam Zafar bring us Lena Merhej's classic graphic novel on Merhej’s mother’s journey from West to East, and how as a German, she adapted to life in Lebanon.
Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison
Excerpt from Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison A graphic novel, edited by Sarah Mirk, with an introduction by Omar El Akkad Abrams ComicArts (June 2020)… Continue reading Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts From the World’s Most Infamous Prison
Beirut Comix Tell the Story
Beirut-based graphic artists Lina Ghaibeh and George "Jad" Khoury each recount what happened on the 4th of August, 2020, a day that shall live in infamy as far as Lebanon's leaders are concerned. But the people will, at the end of the day, triumph.