{"product_id":"beirut-paperback-1","title":"Beirut - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarrack Zailaa Rima\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarla Calarg?\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCarla Calarg?\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarrack Zailaa Rima's celebrated graphic novel trilogy, gathered together and available in English for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeirut\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate and poetic look at a beloved city that is at once autobiographical, documentary, and fantastic in nature. In Rima's hands, Beirut is a labyrinth of alleyways and stories, a theater teeming with revolts, and a cenotaph to buried memories. With Rima and her family serving as our guides, and through chance encounters with incongruous figures (a librarian, a garbage collector--or the city's last storyteller), we discover a city that longs for its Golden Age even as it is transformed by neoliberal forces in the aftermath of the Civil War--an evolution whose future remains uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDreamlike, tender, and ever-attentive to the beauty of the line, \u003ci\u003eBeirut\u003c\/i\u003e offers a glimpse into Lebanon's past and present, which must be pieced together to form a whole. From the promise of the political activism of its youth in the 1950s and 1960s, to the grating difficulties of the 2015 garbage crisis and the struggle to accommodate and assimilate Palestinian refugees, this is a journey through a city, and an expedition into the idea of home, that only Rima could shepherd. No matter the detours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA graphic novelist and filmmaker, \u003cb\u003eBarrack Zailaa Rima\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1972 in Tripoli, Lebanon, and has lived in Brussels for more than thirty years. While she explored a wide variety of media and art forms in her early career, Barrack now devotes herself to graphic fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former member of the Beirut-based Samandal collective, she is the author of several graphic fictions, editorial cartoons, and compelling works of comics journalism including \u003ci\u003eThe Storyteller of Cairo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeirut\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSociologia\u003c\/i\u003e. Her latest graphic novel, \u003ci\u003eDans le taxi\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Alifbata Editions, received the prestigious Mahmoud Kahil Award for the best graphic novel from the MENA region (Lebanon, 2022) and the Grenades Literary Prize (Belgium, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNumerous trips between Lebanon and Belgium have punctuated Barrack's career, resulting in publications, workshops, courses, production, and multiple collaborations. She has also exhibited and published in various projects around the Mediterranean, Tunisia, Switzerland, Palestine, Italy, France, the United States, and Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslators\u003cb\u003e Carla Calargé\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Gueydan-Turek\u003c\/b\u003e are specialists of the MENA region. As longtime collaborators, they have co-edited a volume of \u003ci\u003eNouvelles études francophones\u003c\/i\u003e (34.1, 2019) on (the margins of) Francophone comics, and they have written more than a dozen of articles on graphic works from the Arab world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.4 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47210187948281,"sku":"9781778430480","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Vc-ko2geMR9781778430480_7ed1350e-ddb6-451b-b447-f78b0cb03a33.webp?v=1768072210","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/beirut-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}