Lebanon is burning and other dispatches
Publication Information
University Park, PA : Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
Physical Description
x, 150 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination. Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements' success. This collection of short comics documents the political and social unrest in the Middle East during the 2010s in such places as Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, and Bahrain. A collaboration between writer and journalist Yazan Al-Saadi and a lineup of stellar cartoonists from the region--including Tracy Chahwan, Ganzeer, Ghadi Ghosn, Omar Khouri, Sirène Moukheiber, Hicham Rahma, and Enas Satir--this graphic reportage serves as a witness to an era of counterrevolutionary resurgence in which entrenched powers clashed with the people's struggle for self-determination"--
Contents
- Lebanon is burning / (In)humanitarian workers / Bahrain's inconvenient revolution / Eight years of unrest in Syria / Eppur si muove / Seventy years of catastrophe / From Palestine to Turtle Island / Cairo under the crackdown / An uprising in Sudan / The dictator or the emperor / Rubble is universal / My heart burns / An unstoppable force / Whose lives matter : death in the periphery
Subjects
- Arab Spring, 2010- > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Revolutions > Arab countries > History > 21st century > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Arab countries > Social conditions > 21st century > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Arab countries > History > 21st century > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Arab countries > Politics and government > 21st century > Comic books, strips, etc.