38, rue Youssef Semaani
Zeina Abirached
Comics and Graphic Novels
Cambourakis 2006
The shape of this book allows multiple readings through the various possible ways to unfold a series of three times five strips, each dedicated to the occupant of a building, the building where the author spent her childhood, all together forming a community of neighbours, their daily life and light conflicts. |
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
Zeina Abirached
Comics and Graphic Novels
Graphic Universe 2012
Born in Lebanon in 1981, Zeina recounts her childhood memories of the civil war –started 6 years before she was born– portraying the strength of family and community. |
Beirut Won't Cry: Lebanon's July War, A Visual Diary
Mazen Kerbaj
Comics and Graphic Novels
Fantagraphics 2017
English edition of Kerbaj's drawn diary of the 2006 Israeli bombing of Beirut (French edition: Beyrouth, juillet-août 2006, L'Association, 2007). |
Beirut [Beyrouth, la trilogie]
Barrack Rima
Comics and Graphic Novels
english ed. Invisible Publishing, translated by Carla Calargé and Alexandra Gueydan-Turek; 2024
Autobiographical, documentary and fantastic trilogy by a former Samandal member that follows Beirut from 1995 to the 2015 garbage crisis and protests, as the post-war city is buried under its own waste and censorship. |
Beyrouth Catharsis
Zeina Abirached
Comics and Graphic Novels
Cambourakis 2006
A story of a childhood in Lebanon in the 1980s through the words and angle of view of a little girl to whom war is close yet almost invisible, only “apparent” through distant sounds of explosions. |
Beyrouth: Je me souviens
Zeina Abirached
Comics and Graphic Novels
Cambourakis 2009
The author’s childhood and adolescence memories in war-torn Beirut, until she left Lebanon in 2006, are marked with constant fear and hard life, but also with happy moments that helped to forget the raging war. |
Bye-Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-79
Lamia Ziadé
Comics and Graphic Novels
Interlink Graphic 2010
A unique graphic memoir of a terrible war. |
Bye-Bye Babylone Beyrouth 1975 1979
Lamia Ziadé
Comics and Graphic Novels
Denoël 2010
A unique graphic memoir of a terrible war. |
Et toi, comment ça va ?
Michèle Standjofski and Charles Berberian
Comics and Graphic Novels
Casterman 2026
Drawn correspondence between Standjofski in Beirut and Berberian in Paris begun in September 2024, during Israel's offensive on Lebanon, to keep drawing against despair. |
I Remember Beirut
Zeina Abirached
Comics and Graphic Novels
Graphic Universe 2014
The author’s childhood and adolescence memories in war-torn Beirut, until she left Lebanon in 2006, are marked with constant fear and hard life, but also with happy moments that helped to forget the raging war. |
I Think We Will Be Calmer in the Next War
Lena Merhej
Comics and Graphic Novels
Dar Onboz, Beirut 2006
The artist's first comic, a 36-page black-and-white diary of the July 2006 war in Beirut, with bombed bridges, shortages and displaced people, told with self-mocking humour; Lebanon's best-selling book of 2007. |
Mourir partir revenir. Le jeu des hirondelles
Zeina Abirached
Comics and Graphic Novels
Cambourakis 2007
Born in Lebanon in 1981, Zeina recounts her childhood memories of the civil war –started 6 years before she was born– portraying the strength of family and community. |
Revenge #2
Samandal (comics collective)
Comics and Graphic Novels
Beehive Books, Philadelphia 2025
Single-colour anthology from the Beirut collective on resistance, displacement, empathy and survival in Lebanon and Palestine under past and recent violence. |
