Baddawi
Author & Illustrator: Leila Abdelrazaq
Publisher: Just World Books
Print Length: 128 pages
Genre: Graphic Novel / Comic Book, Non-Fiction / Memoir, History
Area: Baddawi Refugee Camp, Lebanon
Topic: Palestinian, Asylum & Refugee System, Refugees & Forced Migration, Camps, Violence & Mass Violence, Civil War, War, History, Lived Experience, Children & Childhood, Youth & Youthhood, Existentialism, Loneliness & Isolatedness, Resilience, Survival, Hope, Education, Resistance, Refugee Urban Settlement, Refugee Resettlement
Baddawi is the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the many thousands of refugee children born to Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel.
In this visually arresting graphic novel, Leila Abdelrazaq explores her father’s childhood in the 1960s and ’70s from a boy’s eye view as he witnesses the world crumbling around him and attempts to carry on, forging his own path in the midst of terrible uncertainty.
Since its publication in 2015, Baddawi has been translated into Korean (Hudd Books, Seoul, 2016), Arabic (Kalimat Group, Sharjah, 2017), and French (Steinkis Editions, Paris, 2018). Baddawi was also shortlisted for the 2015 Palestine Book Awards.
Leila Abdelrazaq is Palestinian-American author and artist. Her debut graphic novel, Baddawi (Just World Books 2015) was shortlisted for the 2015 Palestine Book Awards and has been translated into three languages. Since then, she has created a number of other zines, comics, and writings. She has published, exhibited work, and given workshops around the world. Leila’s creative work primarily explores issues related to diaspora, refugeehood, history, memory, and borders. She earned her MA in Modern Middle Eastern & North African Studies from the University of Michigan in 2020, where her research focused on Palestinian futurist art and and post-national imaginaries. As an abolitionist and an artist, Leila is invested in imagining what Palestinian liberation might look like beyond the violence inherent in statehood.
Source: https://lalaleila.com/ABOUT
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