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My Great Arab Melancholy - Lamia Ziade

My Great Arab Melancholy

By: Lamia Ziade, Emma Ramadan (Translator)

Paperback | 20 January 2024

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Winner of the Prix litt raire France-Liban

'A stunningly stylish, breathtakingly evocative tribute in words and art to the cosmopolitan Levant that exists in defiance of war and empire. I treasure my copy' -- Molly Crabapple, artist and co-author of Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

My Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, elegiac and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziad . Blending the author's years of research, personal memoir, and more than 300 illustrations, this compelling history of the modern Arab world explores the major thinkers, struggles, and turning points that have shaped the Middle East as we know it today.

Ziad begins in South Lebanon, "land of martyrs, ruins, and passion", before taking the reader on a journey through Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Baghdad. The book moves from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, tracing the Arab world's tragedies and the derailing of dreams and possibilities caused in large part by Western imperialism and the conquest of Palestine.

Within these pages there are the blasts of explosions, blood, and tears; cemeteries, wreaths, and ribbons; martyrs and paradise. Ziad unearths the buried memory of resistance fighters and their lost ideals. In haunting prose and unforgettable images she celebrates the progressive, bold, revolutionary moments and figures of the Arab world's recent past.

Lamia Ziad is a Lebanese author, illustrator and visual artist. Born in Beirut in 1968 and raised during the Lebanese Civil War, she moved to Paris at 18 to study graphic arts. She then worked as a designer for Jean Paul Gaultier, exhibited her art in numerous galleries internationally, and went on to publish several illustrated books, including My Port of Beirut, nuit, mes yeux and Bye Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-1979.

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'A stunningly stylish, breathtakingly evocative tribute in words and art to the cosmopolitan Levant that exists in defiance of war and empire. I treasure my copy.'

-- Molly Crabapple, artist and author of 'Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War'

'... a personal, impassioned account ... evocative, personal texts with illustrations whose bold, colorful style seems to hark back to hand-painted movie posters'

-- 'The New York Review'

'Lamia Ziade works as an alchemist'

-- 'Elle'

'Extraordinary'

-- 'Ms Magazine'

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