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Today we are going on a journey to the Middle East. Often times what we hear coming out of the Middle East is violent. Today I would like to share an insightful book and a look into the everyday life of Israel/Palestine.
When I first read the book Habibiby Naomi Nye a few years back I thought it was one of the most wonderfully crafted an authentic stories presented on the region. I’m very biased as my husband is from Lebanon and we spend a lot of time with family in that region of the world. My children could relate to the story of Habibi on many levels. We’ve raised our children speaking Arabic just so they could communicate with their family overseas. Though language hasn’t been an issue , the adjustment to a new country always is.
Because all of us here have a first hand experience of the region, I wanted someone to read this book who hadn’t bee to the region and see what their experience with Habibi was. Today’s blog post is shared with us by our intern and crafter extraordinaire Hannah Rials. Please enjoy our journey today and the rich cultures, diverse backgrounds, and traditions which live in the Middle East.
A Review
Habibi: (n.) “darling.” Arabic, a term of endearment in all countries.
Liyana’s just had her first ever kiss, and now her father announces that her family is moving to Jerusalem and he is returning. After years of living in America, Poppy is ready to return to his homeland and be reunited with his estranged family. So without any say from Liyana or her brother Rafik, the Abbouds pack up their house, manage an estate sale, and fly across the world to Jerusalem/Palestine, a country that is supposed to be improving, but is life really any better than it was when Poppy left?
Liyana feels lost in Jerusalem. Her very traditional family does not speak a word of English, so both she and they must be translated through Poppy. She knows no one here. Back in St. Louis, even the grocer knew her. Here, she’s just half and half—half American, half Arabic. She has no place, but as she comes to experience and explore Jerusalem and its inhabitants, she begins to find herself more at home, especially when she meets Omar, the handsome Jewish boy in the lamp store.
They form a friendship based on peace and the belief that the world can only get better when people change their views. If they continue to think in the same way that they always have, then things are always going to stay the same. All the adults who talk about change and peace do not seem to understand that.
Naomi Shihab Nye’s story shows a troubled country through a powerful, influential prospective—that of a child’s. Too often, adults overlook the simple solutions, the easy through process. They make everything complicated, when the solution might easily be changing your tune. National change does not happen without first a change in thought. All it takes is a friendship between a young, quirky Arabic girl and a peaceful Jewish boy in Jerusalem to start that change.
This story is beautifully woven. I learned so much about Jerusalem that I never knew. It seems like such a foreign place, so far away, but Nye creates a beautiful, endearing culture, despite the dangerous aspects. Liyana, the habibi of the family, is a wonderful inspiring character that is easy to connect to and offers a fresh prospective. I can’t wait to see what else Nye has created!
Create your own Family Memories: Recently our entire family returned to my husband’s homeland of Lebanon and much fun was had, old memories were revisited and new ones were created.
At our favorite banyan tree at the American university of Beirut. The kids have played there for years.
This is of one of our favorite meals known as Lunch at Jido’s. Jido means grandfather. Every Saturday I would cook lunch for the family at Jido’s house. This year we had a Jido lunch at my sister in laws.
Lebanon Skies
Beach Fun
Food, Family and Laughter!
****
End of Summer Audrey Press Book Sale!!
Summer is slowly winding down and thoughts are turning to the upcoming school year and reads that will take us into (and through) the colder months ahead. Instead of being sad to see summer go, I choose to Celebrate! And what better way to do it than with an End of Summer Audrey Press Book Sale. For two weeks only readers can get a great deal on two of my most popular books. But don’t delay; this super special sale ends August 14, 2015.!
First up The Waldorf Homeschool Handbook: The Simple Step-by-Step guide to creating a Waldorf-inspired #homeschool. And for a limited time, this best-selling book by Donna Ashton, The Waldorf #Homeschool Handbook is now only $17.95 until August 14th, 2015 ! http://amzn.to/1OhTfoT
Enjoy more month-by-month activities based on the classic children’s tale, The Secret Garden! A Year in the Secret Garden is a delightful children’s book with over 120 pages, with 150 original color illustrations and 48 activities for your family and friends to enjoy, learn, discover and play with together. AND, it’s on sale until August 14th ! Grab your copy ASAP and “meet me in the garden!” http://amzn.to/1DTVnuX
Two great children’s books-Your choice, $17.95 each!
Craig Thompson’s fever-dream of a love story/cultural epic HABIBI is one of the biggest, densest graphic novels of the year…or the decade, probably. And it’s getting a lot of attention. So let’s survey the map, shall we?
When Thompson starts working in the morning, he keeps the blinds drawn while penciling or drawing because he wants to keep the outside world away and craves the “cavern-like quality” he remembers from his dingier apartments. In the afternoon, when he’s inking a page, he opens the blinds and lets the “natural cloudy light” pour in. His pace is careful and deliberate: One page a day was a good rate on “Blankets”; a single page on “Habibi” often took three days. “Here’s some sketches of the characters as they presented themselves,” Thompson says, pulling out of a series of neatly dated and labeled sketchbooks that trace the seven-year evolution of “Habibi.” The two main characters, a brave girl named Dodola and Zam, a boy she looks after through a long string of adventures, came to Thompson in a dreamlike state, “fairly full formed as child slaves. Then I started researching child slavery and that started to inform the world that I made up around them.”
Reviews! HABIBI is not a political novel about Islam, but it is about Islamic culture, even if the symbolism is heavily taken from Orientalism. So here’s what one actual Muslim thought of the book, namely writer G. Willow Wilson:
Despite the fact that it contains a slew of clichés with which the Musli
6 Comments on People are talking about Habibi, last added: 9/29/2011
please Please PLEASE schedule Craig Thompson and Frank Miller together on a panel at New York Comic Con!!!
(Can’t wait to read the first Habibi/Holy Terror reviews!)
Seth T. Hahne said, on 9/27/2011 10:05:00 AM
It’s an amazing work. The last twelve months have been great for comics. Daytripper, Any Empire, Duncan the Wonder Dog, and now Habibi. In my own review, I posit Habibi as the flip side of Chester Brown’s Paying For It. Whatever the case, Habibi is probably the coolest novel about sex and love that I’ve ever read.
David Bird said, on 9/27/2011 10:43:00 AM
I just finished it this morning. Its an ambiguous work, but throughout it I kept thinking that this is ground David B is more adept at covering. Not a criticism, but certainly not the reaction I suspect Thompson was hoping for.
Diana said, on 9/27/2011 9:06:00 PM
Craig spoke at the school where I teach, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, last night. I went in with the jaded view of someone who had read Blankets too late in life and thought it just dragged on. After hearing him talk and seeing his ideas and process, I bought the book and got a cool sketch.
This is a profound work, emotional and smart. I’m still working through it, but it definitely makes my top ten for the year.
BY JEN VAUGHN – “Eat your meat.” Words accidentally lifted from the comic Blutch that made their way into a similar dinner scene of Craig Thompson’s seminal graphic novel, Blankets. This week marks the beginning of Thompson’s two month Habibi tour. His new graphic novel in forty words or less is the story of love (many kinds) by two orphans in an Islamic culture touched by the industrial part of the world; it is epic, sprawling and will take you more than one night and a pizza to finish. Thompson started his tour by signing one-hundred copies sold by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund for $100 at the annual SPX this last weekend. Alex Cox of CBLDF happily stated that Thompson, Roz Chast, Sara Varon and an auction raised $12,500 for the organization. And since I’m currently in the midst of the 672 pages of Habibi, terrified of a broken nose (remember falling asleep reading Harry Potter in bed?), I can tell you Habibi is all meat.
Thompson is the first one to admit that his book after Carnet de Voyage took a long time, even though I don’t remember anyone asking. Thompson never meant Blankets to be epic but it turns out both Blankets and Habibi are such. Although if Blankets made so many people love comics and graphic novels, what will Habibi do? What he thought would be a two-hundred page book completed in two years took about seven years total but Pantheon Books knew it was worth the wait. Thompson discussed that fantasy epics are “about the sweeping backgrounds” and the “characters become small” against them. Working within that frame and context made Habibi a challenge given that part of the said background is the storytelling done by the main female character, Dodola. But page by page, Thompson artfully balances black and white with finite Arabic calligraphy and wide array of characters that would have made Eisner do a little jig.
Thompson speaking at The Center for Cartoon Studies in September 2011
When perplexed by how to end Habibi, as Thompson is with each story he starts, he threw down all his notes and took time out for his Carnet de Voyage tour. Time away and working with a perfect nine-square Qur’an style sudoku ‘River Map’ made Thompson realize he could frame each of the nine chapters with a prophet and a letter in mind. His favorite parts of the book ended up being the page spreads with something unfortunate happening to a character juxtaposed with a story of the prophet. It mirrored Thompson’s adolescence, when his reading list was made up of only the profound (sacred texts) and the profane (trashy comics).
The play of sacred words, numbers, l
11 Comments on Craig Thompson: On tour with Habibi, last added: 9/21/2011
I know some Muslims anxiously awaiting this book with optimism. They’re optimistic Islam can be shown in a positive light and are happy Thompson spent so much time researching the art styles.
Thompson was very down to Earth and nice back when he was promoting Goodbye, Chunky Rice. It’s nice to see he sounds the same now.
I don’t think I can handle an emotional experience like Goodbye or Blankets again.
jacob goddard said, on 9/17/2011 2:49:00 PM
:(
Pantheon used to send all of their cartoonests to Philly to lecture at the Free Library.
They don’t anymore.
Jackie Haas said, on 9/18/2011 7:30:00 AM
This has what to do with super heroes, exactly? Who cares? Why was this posted?
Tom Williams said, on 9/18/2011 8:49:00 AM
So stoked about this book. Coming out on my birthday to boot.
CitizenCliff said, on 9/18/2011 5:58:00 PM
We need more books that are anything but super heroes. Work like this is so important for a healthy, diverse, expanding comics industry and thriving medium.
Reprodukt » Blog Archiv » Morgen, Kinder, wird´ said, on 9/19/2011 1:47:00 AM
[...] Vielen Dank für das Gif an Comicsbeat.com. [...]
Al B said, on 9/19/2011 2:46:00 AM
I think the great unreported story in comics ths year will be the response and contrast of Thompson’s new work with Frank Miller’s “Holy Terror”. It’s not only an incidental matchup between competing views on the influence of Islam in today’s society, but a generational contrast between two of the great American populist comic-book makers of the last quarter century. It’s not very often two individuals of such magnitude in any field of endeavour present themselves in such a fashion.
Rupert Giles said, on 9/19/2011 1:32:00 PM
I, for one, am very excited to read this book. However, as someone pointed out earlier, I’m curious to see what kind of cultural picture this story paints in regards to Islam.
As an avid student of Islamic culture, I hope this story embraces the culture’s positives and negatives. It seems most stories related to Muslims, or Islam in general, are either apologetic PR puff-pieces or are far too critical propaganda pieces. Nobody lives in a perfect world or in the seventh circle of hell, so I hope this story lands somewhere in the middle.
Craig Thompson: On tour with Habibi | CCS Visiting said, on 9/20/2011 8:25:00 PM
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Boston Comics Roundtable » Blog Archive » Comics said, on 9/21/2011 7:17:00 AM
[...] Jen Vaughn has written a perfect post about CCS’s perfect night with Thompson on Comics Beat here. And click here for more info on tonight’s event. Tickets are $5.00. Come see the artist [...]
There was so much good stuff in the Carnival yesterday, that I didn’t append some of my favorite links from the week, but here they are.
- Two links about Google Books. One is Scott Boren’s long piece on LISNews about full txt serching in books. What you can search and how you can search it. Great well-researched piece. The second is Julia Tryon’s contribution to FreeGovInfo concerning the amount of government information available via Google Books. Google provides no statistics. This will be part of an ongoing project she’ll be working on there, stay tuned.
When looking at the search results in Google for publisher field has GPO, I found 141,600 items, only 82,487 of which were available in the full view. And although it is nice to think that we have the full text for 82,487 documents, not all of them can be used. I randomly picked a title to see how it looked and chose the Statistical Abstract for 1954. The pages were clear enough to read easily but on every even numbered page part of the right hand column was chopped off.
- Karen Schneider has been writing some great stuff lately. It’s been fun to see her getting into what I see as the more technical side of librarianing because her explanations of techie stuff are clear and free of nonsense while still being readable and engaging. Her article in Library Journal Lots of Librarians Can Keep Stuff Safe about LOCKSS and Portico really helped me understand the fairly complicated world of e-journal archiving.
- Bryan Herzog’s always-excellent blog has pulled some Reader’s Advisory suggestions off of ME-LIBS the Maine Librarie dicussion list and added his own commentary. Brian also made a custom book review search using Google’s custom search function. Very very nice. I’d love to see someone toss together a page of Google Custom Searches that were useful to librarians. Has anyone done this? I’ve already made a Custom Ego Search but that’s not the same thing.
Despite my Very Large Skepticism of Google in general, the tool itself is very easy to set up and is potentially extremely useful (especially for librarians). Basically, it lets you limit searching to a select group of websites - in this case, book review websites
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Starred review in Shelf Awareness for Readers:
http://shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=29#m601
please Please PLEASE schedule Craig Thompson and Frank Miller together on a panel at New York Comic Con!!!
(Can’t wait to read the first Habibi/Holy Terror reviews!)
It’s an amazing work. The last twelve months have been great for comics. Daytripper, Any Empire, Duncan the Wonder Dog, and now Habibi. In my own review, I posit Habibi as the flip side of Chester Brown’s Paying For It. Whatever the case, Habibi is probably the coolest novel about sex and love that I’ve ever read.
I just finished it this morning. Its an ambiguous work, but throughout it I kept thinking that this is ground David B is more adept at covering. Not a criticism, but certainly not the reaction I suspect Thompson was hoping for.
Craig spoke at the school where I teach, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, last night. I went in with the jaded view of someone who had read Blankets too late in life and thought it just dragged on. After hearing him talk and seeing his ideas and process, I bought the book and got a cool sketch.
This is a profound work, emotional and smart. I’m still working through it, but it definitely makes my top ten for the year.
Can I get that on my iPad??