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My Great Arab Melancholy
Lamia Ziadé; Translated by Emma Ramadan
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R698
Discovery Miles 6 980
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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My Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, tragic and award-winning
book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziadé. 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. Ziadé begins in South
Lebanon, 'land of martyrs, ruins and passion', before taking the
reader further afield, to Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo and Baghdad. The
book moves from the beginning of the 20th 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, tears and tragedy, cemeteries, wreaths and
ribbons, martyrs and paradise. Ziadé 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.
In August 2020, Lebanon was in the midst of the global pandemic and
a devastating economic crisis. People protested in the streets,
calling for the removal of a political elite accused of greed,
negligence and incompetence. The Lebanese people felt as though
their country was staring into the abyss. But the worst was yet to
come. On the evening of August 4, 2020, Hangar 12 of the
Port of Beirut exploded, and then exploded again. A shockwave
moving faster than the speed of sound tore through Beirut, leaving
nearly 200 people dead, 6,000 injured and 300,000 homeless. The
blast had been caused by the storing of thousands of tons of
ammonium nitrate alongside a stash of fireworks - a deadly
arrangement about which the government had known, but done nothing.
For six months straight, French-Lebanese author and artist Lamia
Ziadé wrote, illustrated and recorded every new piece of
information, every photograph of the wreckage or the wounded that
made its way around WhatsApp groups, Instagram and Twitter. In My
Port of Beirut, Ziadé weaves together the play-by-play of the
tragedy with her own personal stories, as well as the historical
and political background that made such a catastrophe possible and,
perhaps, inevitable.
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