The books in the schools do not teach it as there is no officially sanctioned version to teach. This was important, as Abirached emphasized, because despite Beirut’s history of war, it has no memorial, no monument to it. She couldn’t recall when it had been torn down, nor, when she asked, could her neighbors. The wall was gone, but she had continued to navigate the city as if it remained. Actually, she was close to home, but in a section that had been previously inaccessible due to the wall.

Years after the war ended, when she was about 21, she found herself disoriented and apparently lost in the city. The wall and its later absence were of seminal importance in Abirached’s life.

The wall impeded their ability to move about, and more importantly, was a daily reminder that they lived in the midst of conflict. Her family lived at 38 Rue Youssef Semaani, and at the end of her street was a huge wall which kept her neighborhood “amputated,” as she said, from the rest of the city. The Lebanese civil war that engulfed her childhood started in 1975, and Abirached, the eldest of two children, was born in East Beirut in 1981. Zeina Abirached began her talk by summarizing the facts of her childhood: “My first ten years was war,” she explained. Presentations vary weekly and include everything from historical topics and technical demonstrations to creators presenting their work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9pm EST in New York City. The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Together they try to make it through a dramatic day in the one place they hoped they would always be safe-home.By The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium When Zeina's parents don't return one afternoon from a visit to the other half of the city and the bombing grows ever closer, the neighbors in her apartment house create a world indoors for Zeina and her brother where it's comfy and safe, where they can share cooking lessons and games and gossip. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. Title: A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Returnīook Descriptions: When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. If you want to get : A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return Read Online A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Returnįull Book A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return

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A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached