Sunday Submissions: ‘Samandal’
2022-07-03
Beirut-based comic magazine Samandal is calling for submissions for their 18th issue.Continue Reading
Sketching/Scripting Women – Women and Comics in the Arab World
2022-02-01
The Spring 2022 seminar in the ‘Sketching/Scripting Women’ series of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing will explore the work of Francophone female graphic novelists from the Arab World.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: 5 of the Best Arab Comics & Graphic Novels of 2021
2021-12-31
Over at Middle East Eye, Bahira Amin has put together an excellent list of five of the best comics and graphic-novel releases of 2021.Continue Reading
The Challenges of Algerian Comix and ‘A Beautiful Local Production’
2020-04-15
“Dalimen Editions really want to widen comic books’ readership. We want to strip away this image of comix as books for children. We have albums aimed at young readers, of course, but we have others for adults because comic books speak to everyone and are accessible to all.”Continue Reading
‘Fatma n’Parapli’: Comix Exploring Women’s Lives, Mental Illness, and Community
2020-02-12
In addition to being “mad,” she was also very clever, and could compose rhyming poetry off the top of her head. She was also a tragic figure in that her mental illness set in after the death of many members of her family during the war, and she was forced to raise her four children on her own.Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Comics and Comix
2018-05-21
“I started to ask myself the following questions: How might iconic images circulate between the page and other public contexts such as graffiti, calligraffiti, and the iconography of protest and resistance? What is the role of leitmotifs and repetition at the intersection of text and image?”Continue Reading
Formerly Banned Graphic Novel ‘Metro’ Now Available in Cairo
2013-01-28
Five years after its initial publication, Magdy al-Shafee’s graphic novel Metro is once again available in Arabic in Egypt: By Elisabeth Jaquette Metro is Egypt’s first graphic novel and a vivid portrait of poverty and corruption under Mubarak’s rule. When it was first published in January 2008, it was quicklyContinue Reading
Friday Links: Your Dose of Orientalism, Publishing Controversies, Graphic Novels, More
2010-11-26
In the interest of “balance,” today we’ll be providing some good old-fashioned views of Arabs (in English) over here at ArabLit! First, the Guardian books blog has a post about reading and knowing Tangiers via European writers (and the disappointments of not finding any bloodthirsty tribals, a la Sheltering Sky,Continue Reading
