LEBANON IS BURNING AND OTHER DISPATCHES, answering "why is this happening?"

LEBANON IS BURNING AND OTHER DISPATCHES
VARIOUS CREATORS (listed below)
Graphic Mundi (non-affiliate Amazon link)
$21.95 trade paper, available now

Rating: 5* of five

The Publisher Says: Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination.

Essential reading for understanding current events through authoritative Middle East voices from the front lines. 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,

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.

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My Review: Precisely what I myownself needed to "get" the reasons the world is on fire again in what we in the US call the Middle East.

It's all in the gestalt between art, ideas, and words. The entire experience illuminated my frustrated sense of "what the hell happened to set this horror into motion again?"

Cheery little bagatelle it is not. A great way to offer your older teen or twentysomething giftee a handle on why the world is ablaze with rage...again...it very much is.