graphic novels

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
Why Love, War & Resistance?

Why Love, War & Resistance?

Can love act as a transformative force during challenging times, in the face of 2000-pound bombs, drones, AI surveillance,...

7 MARCH 2025 • By Malu Halasa
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
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
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
Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle...

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Aomar Boum
Migration and Mentorship: the Case of Abdelaziz Mouride

Migration and Mentorship: the Case of Abdelaziz Mouride

Aomar Boum, guest editor of TMR’s COMIX issue, heralds the work of master cartoonist Abdelaziz Mouride in mentoring...

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Jenny White
Beginnings, the Life & Times of “Slim” aka Menouar Merabtene

Beginnings, the Life & Times of “Slim” aka Menouar Merabtene

Algeria’s leading cartoonist reminisces on his start in bandes dessinées in Algeria, Poland and France.

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Sherine Hamdy
Obdurate Moroccan Memories: Abdelkrim’s Afterlife in a Graphic Novel

Obdurate Moroccan Memories: Abdelkrim’s Afterlife in a Graphic Novel

Brahim El Guabli writes about the Amazigh leader and resistance fighter Abdelkarim who inspired great Moroccan graphic novels.

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Brahim El Guabli
French Colonialism in Algeria and Ferrandez’s “Carnets d’Orient”

French Colonialism in Algeria and Ferrandez’s “Carnets d’Orient”

Amber Sackett analyzes the popular French cartoonist Jacques Ferrandez’s series depicting colonial Algeria under the French.

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Jessica Proett
The Excellent Journey of Algerian Cartoonist Nadjib Berber

The Excellent Journey of Algerian Cartoonist Nadjib Berber

For 20 years, Algeria was the preeminent country of comics in the Maghreb and Middle East. Nadjib Berber...

15 AUGUST 2021 • By Maryam Zar
The Crash, Covid-19 and Other Iranian Stories

The Crash, Covid-19 and Other Iranian Stories

Malu Halasa reviews the new graphic novel by former political prisoner and editorial cartoonist Mana Neyestani, released in...

14 MARCH 2021 • By Malu Halasa
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