Rawand Issa’s A Chicken’s Diary

An image adapted from "A Chicken's Diary," wondering what Is love? (Rawand Issa).

7 MARCH 2025 • By Rawand Issa, Anam Zafar
The roosters are cavalier, the hens are circumspect; everybody’s minding everyone else’s business, but every now and then, love happens, actually, and for those two, the world becomes this microcosm…And yet, what is love?

Rawand Issa

Translated from Arabic by Anam Zafar

(Read the pdf version.)

 

And the story continues:

Rawand Issa

Rawand Issa is a comics artist and writer from Lebanon whose work focuses on socio-economic issues and documenting real stories. She is the author of the graphic memoir, Inside the Giant Fish, which was published, in English, by Maamoul Press, in the... Read more

Anam Zafar

Anam Zafar is a multi-award-winning translator from Arabic and French to English. She appears on the 100 Inspiring Muslims: Next Generation Edition list (Emerald Network/Aziz Foundation). Her co-translation of Josephine Baker’s memoir Fearless and Free, with Sophie Lewis, is out now with Vintage Classics/Tiny... Read more

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