Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
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…
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.
Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic point always undergoing change.
Marjane Satrapi's edited anthology "Woman, Life, Freedom" shows that the story of the movement cannot be told with only one voice.
Katie Logan reviews a graphic novel that blends the real world with the fantastical in a coming of age journey.
Katie Logan has read "The Undesirables" — a graphic novel set in WW II-era Europe and North Africa.
In Rawand Issa's "Inside the Giant Fish," a girl looks for her lost memories on a beach that no longer exists.
Clive Bell reviews the latest graphic novel from Mana Neyestani on the hardships of being a Kurdish porter.
Malu Halasa interviews the Iranian graphic novelist who like Marjane Satrapi has made France his home as a political refugee.
Katie Logan reviews a familiar coming-of-age story elevated by deep thinking about the nature of history, empire and narrative.
Katie Logan reviews the much-anticipated English version of the Egyptian graphic novel, a tour de force.
Rusha Rafeek interviews graphic memoirist Malaka Gharib about her Arab American coming of age story.
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.
Young Lebanese comic writer-illustrator duo Raja Abu Kasm and Rahil Mohsin convey what they think of corruption and their disintegrating country.
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.