Katie Logan

Illustrating Intimacy: Zeina Abirached Remasters The Prophet

Illustrating Intimacy: Zeina Abirached Remasters The Prophet

In making sense of her own relationship to a globally beloved text, Abirached provides opportunities to experience "The...

7 MARCH, 2025 • By Katie Logan
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
Activism in the Landscape: Environmental Arts & Resistance in Palestine

Activism in the Landscape: Environmental Arts & Resistance in Palestine

The uprooting of olive trees by Israel is both symbolic and real, destroying Palestinians' right to live with...

4 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Katie Logan
Deena Mohamed

Deena Mohamed

Featured artist Deena Mohamed is an accomplished Egyptian graphic novelist and author of the fantasy trilogy "Shubeik Lubeik"...

5 JULY, 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
Do or Despair: Political Action in My Great Arab Melancholy

Do or Despair: Political Action in My Great Arab Melancholy

Katie Logan reviews Lamia Ziadé's latest illustrated volume that prompts a reckoning with the concept of melancholy.

3 MARCH, 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
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
The Politics of Wishful Thinking: Deena Mohamed’s Shubeik Lubeik

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.

13 MARCH, 2023 • By Katie Logan
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