Beirut

<p><b>Barrack Zailaa Rima’s celebrated graphic novel trilogy, gathered together and available in English for the first time.</b></p><p><i>Beirut</i> is an intimate and poetic look at a beloved city that is at once autobiographical, documentary, and fantastic in nature. In Rima’s hands, Beirut is a labyrinth of alleyways and stories, a theater teeming with revolts, and a cenotaph to buried memories. With Rima and her family serving as our guides, and through chance encounters with incongruous figures (a librarian, a garbage collector—or the city''s last storyteller), we discover a city that longs for its Golden Age even as it is transformed by neoliberal forces in the aftermath of the Civil War—an evolution whose future remains uncertain.</p><p>Dreamlike, tender, and ever-attentive to the beauty of the line, <i>Beirut</i> offers a glimpse into Lebanon''s past and present, which must be pieced together to form a whole. From the promise of the political activism of