Rawand Issa & Malaka Gharib: Graphic Memoir & Navigating Change
Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023
In collaboration with Maamoul Press, the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL) presents a live streamed conversation between graphic novelists Malaka Gharib and Rawand Issa, centering on their recently published graphic memoirs: Gharib’s “It Won’t Always Be Like This” (Ten Speed Graphic, 2022) and Issa’s “Inside the Giant Fish” (Maamoul Press, 2022). Both authors delve into nostalgic summers on the beach, and themes of identity, adolescence and growing up amid environmental change and social expectations explored in these works.
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Rawand Issa is a comics artist and writer from Lebanon whose work focuses on socio-economic issues and documenting real stories. She is the author of the graphic memoir “Inside the Giant Fish”, the story of a girl looking for her lost memories on a beach that no longer exists, published in Arabic in 2019 and English in 2022. She has created several other short comic books and zines including “The Insubordinate” and “Not From Mars” in addition to contributing political cartoons and comics to various publications.
Malaka Gharib is a journalist, cartoonist and graphic novelist. She is the author of "I Was Their American Dream," a graphic memoir published in 2019 about being first-generation Filipino Egyptian American, which won an Arab American Book Award in 2020. Then in 2022, she published "It Won't Always Be Like This," a graphic memoir about her summers in the Middle East. By day, she works as a digital editor at NPR for Life Kit. Her comics and writing have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Catapult, The Believer Magazine and The New Yorker. She lives in Nashville, Tenn., with her husband, son and Shiba Inu.
This event is in partnership with the Arab American National Museum.
Pop-Up Series
Launched in early 2020, this was planned to be a monthly drop-in stye pop-up workshop and book/print shop, across various metro Detroit venues. Although it became suspended due to the pandemic, we are now hoping to get back into it with new periodic events.
The Pop-Up is free and open to the public, with no experience necessary. Join us to hang out, make some art, buy/sell/trade zines, and build community!
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Participants were invited to bring in either an original or found piece of writing to be guided through creating a zine that tracks the arc of the written piece through visual interpretation.
Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, 2-5 p.m.
Zine-Making at the Palestine Library
Preoccupations: Palestinian Landscapes exhibition
Holding House, 3546 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI
Participants were prompted to create short, hand-made zines in response to materials in the exhibition’s Palestine Library, learning basic book-binding techniques.
Bon-gah Art Book Fair Talk
Dec. 28, 2021
Maamoul Press co-founders Leila Abdelrazaq and Aya Krisht gave a talk and presentation as part of the Tehran-based 2021 Bon-gah Art Book Fair, as a virtual component to this in-person fair.
Organized by Lila Nazemian, this talk, which included live Farsi translation, explored the beginnings and journey of the Press, why we started it and where we hope to take it.
RED BULL ARTS DETROIT ART MILE EDITIONS EXHIBITION
June 14–July 11, 2021
Maamoul Press guest curated a Red Bull Arts Detroit - Art Mile Editions online exhibition, showcasing a range of contemporary works around a diversity of experiences and narratives from emerging as well as established artists in and around diaspora.
View the exhibition online
Select works are available for purchase, with 100% of sales going back to the artists.
Exhibited artists:
Amar Haidar
Batoul Ballout
Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Ebru Eltemur
Lara Atallah
Lina Habazi
Maya James
Samia Saliba
Sr7aneh
Tala Saad
Taqa intifada
Yasmeen Soufan
Yasmine Elhagehassan
Yasmine Nasser Diaz
Zeinab Saab
RAWIFEST DRAWING FOR WRITERS WORKSHOP
June 13, 2021
Maamoul Press led a virtual workshop titled Drawing for Writers at RAWIFest, presented by Maamoul Press organizing members Soumya Dhulekar and Sana Masud.
In this workshop, participants were guided through methods for visualizing either an original or found piece of writing, to create their own mini zine through tracking key moments in the selected piece of writing and creating symbols or images associated with each of those moments. The result is a small, handmade visual zine that represents the story.
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