Habibi Graphic Novel by Craig Thompson kitchen Published: 5 Oct 2021

Published: 5 Oct 2021

this book celebrates the amazing variety and vision that lies behind sometimes quite ordinary facades

and Western European art explore the representation of Balthazar as a Black African king

and the growth of the wider movement for racial equality

and enduring importance in relation to debates about decolonization

Habibi Graphic Novel by Craig Thompson kitchen Published: 5 Oct 2021Habibi, based on a Middle Eastern fable, is a wonderfully illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby she names Zam. They live in isolation in an old boat in the desert. As they age their relationship shifts from mother and son, to brother and sister and eventually lovers. In the meantime however Dodola is forced to prostitute herself to desert traders in order to provide