Zeina Abirached was born in Beirut in the middle of the civil war. She studied graphic arts in Lebanon but moved to Paris in 2004, where she attended the National School of Decorative Arts. In 2006, she published her first two graphic novels with publisher Cambourakis, BEYROUTH-CATHARSISand 38, RUE YOUSSEF SEMAANI. Her short animated film Mouton was nominated during the fifth international film festival in Tehran. 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. JE ME SOUVIENS BEYROUTH (I REMEMBER BEIRUT), the follow-up to A GAME OF SWALLOWS, was published in French by Cambourakis in 2008.

Books by Zeinia Abirached

I Remember Beirut

by Zeinia Abirached - Graphic Novel

Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Follow her past cars riddled with bullet holes, into taxi cabs that travel where buses refuse to go, and n outings to collect shrapnel from the sidewalk. With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone.