A pre-Christmas opportunity to support the press and independent publishing.Partnering with the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), AECOM is delivering project management and leadership training to the local community of AlUla, supporting RCU’s strategic mission to develop the region’s human capital and build a thriving economy. The book is available in pre-sales on the website of the Marseille publishing house Alifbata. But I think that in the short term, it will not be easy and it is already not easy for Lebanon. I think that the revolution cannot and will not stop. Are you optimistic about the future of Lebanon? Tripoli is also the city where the Lebanese thawra (revolution) started. The dream is the place where I look for symbols, and drawing them is linked to a work of interpretation that I have been doing for several years. The night is the space of the dreams and the dreams hold an important place in my work because it is both a source of inspiration and an experience in itself that is part of the path. What is your relationship with the night? Your black and white artistic style is both dark and dreamlike.
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What does the cab represent for you?įor me, the cab represents the movement, it’s the symbol of the path and its driver can be a double of oneself, it is a guide. And this story happens in a collective cab, what we call “services” in Lebanon. It is also a return to my childhood, my roots and my wounds: it raises the question of sexuality, desire, the notion of masculine and feminine. From the first page, I explain that I decided to return to Tripoli, my hometown. With Dans le taxi, I am exploring another territory that is the city of my birth. In January, you will release Dans le taxi, a work that takes place in Tripoli and much more intimate than the previous one. Then two years later, I went back in time and said that I couldn’t leave this city like that. The second opus takes place twenty years later and is much more pessimistic, I said I didn’t want anything more to do with this city. The book was about the wind of hope of that time when everything was possible. The civil war had just ended and many Lebanese were returning to the country to participate in the reconstruction. It was in 1995, I was a student in Belgium and had already left Lebanon a few years ago. The first one was my graduation project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. I wrote each of them at three different periods of my life.
What did you want to tell about the city when you released the first opus?īeyrouth la Trilogie includes Beirut, Beirut Bye Bye and Beirut Rewind.
You made yourself known with Beyrouth la Trilogie. And Edmond Baudoin, a French author who taught me generosity, tenderness, beauty of line, a form of wisdom. Louis Josse is a Belgian comic book author who was also my professor at the University and taught me to go straight to the point. In my journey, I learned from many authors, among them Alberto Breccia : an Argentine comic book author and cartoonist who taught me the multiple layers of black, white and gray. I always knew that I liked to draw and tell stories, which led me to make comic books and films, which are both arts that mix images and stories. Drawing was a desire and a necessity since I was a child. See also Shams alma'arif, the book of the sun, embodies the revival of Saudi cinema What triggered your interest in comics?
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