Abirached studied art in both Lebanon and France. Je Me Souviens Beyrouth ( I Remember Beirut), the follow-up to A Game For Swallows, was published in French by Cambourakis in 2008. Abirached was born during the Lebanese Civil War, which lasted from 1975 to 1990 and had an estimated death toll of 150,000 people.
A Game For Swallows (Graphic Universe, 2012) has won numerous awards, including being named an ALA Notable Children's Book and a YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens. Her short animated film Mouton was nominated during the fifth international film festival in Tehran. SUMMARY: Born in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War that occurred between 1975-1990, author Zeina Abirached recalls the people, places and things that shaped her war-torn childhood using dramatic yet childlike black and white graphics and text. In 2006, she published her first two graphic novels with publisher Cambourakis, Beyrouth-Catharsis and 38, Rue Youssef Semaani. She studied graphic arts in Lebanon but moved to Paris in 2004, where she attended the National School of Decorative Arts.
Zeina Abirached was born in Beirut in the middle of the civil war. With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone. Follow her past cars riddled with bullet holes, into taxi cabs that travel where buses refuse to go, and on outings to collect shrapnel from the sidewalk. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories.
Published by Graphic Universe, October 2014.
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