Dispatches from Beirut

Comic artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj keeps a visual diary of a week in Lebanon’s embattled capital.

Mazen Kerbaj - 001 10 may 2008 with eng

Mazen Kerbaj - 002 10 may 2008 with eng

Mazen Kerbaj - 003 10 May 2008 with eng

Mazen Kerbaj - 004 11 may 2008 with eng

Mazen Kerbaj - 005 12 may 2008 with eng

Mazen Kerbaj - 006 12-15 may 2008 with eng

Mazen Kerbaj - 007 12-15 may 2008 with eng

Mazen Kerbaj - 008 15 may 2008 with eng

For more of Kerbaj’s works visit mazenkerblog.blogspot.com and/or www.kerbaj.com.

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This visual diary features in the Media & Technology section of Chimurenga Vol. 16: The Chimurenga Chronic (available here).

Set in the week 18-24 May 2008, the Chronic, imagines the newspaper as a producer of time – a time-machine – which travels backwards and forwards, to place these events within a broader context and thereby to challenge the logic of emergencies and immediate needs that characterise contemporary African media.

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