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“Inside the Margins”: Centering Tirailleurs in Bandes Dessinées

“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...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Aomar Boum
Interview: Joe Sacco on Gaza

Interview: Joe Sacco on Gaza

Joe Sacco uses his graphic storytelling in "War on Gaza" to reflect on the events in the Gaza...

6 JUNE 2025 • By Elias Feroz
مقتطف من رواية رانية حسين أمين: شخصيات مش متشافة

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...

28 APRIL 2025 • By رانية حسين أمين
Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

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...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Rawand Issa
Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization

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...

6 DECEMBER 2024 • By Katie Logan
Plenty of Marjanes & Leilas: Collective Strategies of the Women’s Protest in Iran

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...

5 JULY 2024 • By Katie Logan
Arab American Teens Come of Age in Nayra and the Djinn

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...

31 JULY 2023 • By Katie Logan
New Graphic Novel is a Memorial for Holocaust Undesirables

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.

17 JULY 2023 • By Katie Logan
Inside the Giant Fish—excerpt from Rawand Issa’s graphic novel

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...

2 JULY 2023 • By Rawand Issa
Hard Work: Kurdish Kolbars or Porters Risk Everything

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.

1 MAY 2023 • By Clive Bell
TMR Conversations: Mana Neyestani, Graphic Novelist

TMR Conversations: Mana Neyestani, Graphic Novelist

Malu Halasa interviews the Iranian graphic novelist who like Marjane Satrapi has made France his home as a...

1 MAY 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Squire, the Provocative Graphic Novel That Channels Edward Said

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...

24 APRIL 2023 • By Katie Logan
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