On March 4, 2021 the Middle East Center was proud to host Paraska Tolan, Trevor Getz, Maryanne Rhett, and Nick Sousanis in an event titled Graphic Histories: Understanding the Middle East and Africa through Comics. Trevor Getz discussed his graphic history Abina and the Important Men based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina who was wrongfully enslaved and took her enslavers to court. Maryanne Rhett discussed Muslim women superheroes in comics. Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik talked about her attempts to draw a primary source-based history of two French women exploring the Sahara. And Nick Sousanis demonstrated how drawings and text can tell two different but complementary stories, making comic art a unique story-telling medium.
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