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By the end of her life, Laure Ghorayeb had been making art for 83 years. She began drawing in 1940 while at school at the Sœurs Saint-Joseph de l’Apparition in Deir al-Qamar (a town located in Mount Lebanon about 40 kilometres from Beirut). Having grown accustomed to the lack of colour in her textbooks’ illustrations, and with no means to purchase coloured pencils, she always drew in black and white. Her early fidelity to monochrome laid the foundations for her practice and came to be the hallmark of her work. She produced her first serious artworks – charcoal drawings and oil paintings – in 1955, during a stint as a researcher at the Ministry of National Education and Fine Arts. She had been encouraged to pursue art by artist Said Akl (1926-2001), her colleague at the ministry and an early proponent of Hurufiyya (Arabic Lettrism), who influenced the use of Arabic text in her work. A self-trained artist, she came to painting and drawing through her poetry practice. She wrote her first French poems in 1945 after moving to Beirut with her family, and later, in 1960, s

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Lebanese comics artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj first appeared in Words Without Borders in February 2008, in our second graphic novel issue. Since then he’s contributed six more pieces, most recently “A Subjective History of Lebanon,” published in September. WWB spoke with Kerbaj on Zoom on September 4, 2020. This interview has been edited and condensed.

WWB: Your “Subjective History of Lebanon” juxtaposes Lebanon’s political history with your autobiography. There’s a real progression from the personal interpretation to the sense of the larger political context, which of course has to do with aging, and becoming older and more aware, but also, I think, reflects to a degree the development of your work. Would you say that your work has become more political over time?

Mazen Kerbaj (MK): Yes and no. Somehow, I feel it became also less political, mostly when I left Beirut. Five years ago, I moved to Berlin, and little by little, I began to do fewer things directly related to Beirut. I actually stopped a strip that I was doing for a local newspaper. In

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Mr. Mazen Antoine Kerbaj and his wife Mrs. Diana (formerly Ayyoub) were blessed with a newborn boy - their first - named Evan Antoine (Trad Hospital)

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Roger Ghoreyyeb and his wife Katia (formerly Haddad) are pleased to announce the birth of their first daughter, named Tasha, born 3/2/2001 (St. Georges Hospital, Beirut)

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