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Mazen Kerbaj

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Mazen Kerbaj

Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese comics author, visual artist, and musician born in Beirut in 1975. He also works on selective illustration and design projects and has taught at the American University of Beirut. Kerbaj is the author of more than fifteen books, and his short stories and drawings have been published in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines. His work has been translated into more than ten languages and has been shown in galleries, museums, and art fairs around the world.

Mazen Kerbaj is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene. He is co-founder of Irtijal, an annual improvisation music festival (www.irtijal.org), and of Al Maslakh, the first label for experimental music in the region operating since 2005. In 2015, Kerbaj was the recipient of a DAAD one-year artist in residency in Berlin. He has lived and worked in the German capital ever since then.

Since his move to Berlin, Kerbaj has developed several new projects in different fields, such as Borborygmus, a play co-written, directed and performed with Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie; Synesthesia, a concept for a live graphic score for an improvising ensemble; and Walls Will Fall, a composition for forty-nine trumpets. He also started working on Antoine, his most ambitious graphic novel to date.

Articles by Mazen Kerbaj

Boat on the sea, an image from Mazen Kerbaj's graphic novel Dear B
Dear B.
By Mazen Kerbaj
I still miss you after all this time.
Translated from French by Mercedes Claire Gilliom
A Subjective History of Lebanon
By Mazen Kerbaj
Translated by Edward Gauvin
Flapflap Blues
By Mazen Kerbaj
In the sky, never much. In the streets, always too much.
Translated by Mercedes Claire Gilliom
My Cloud
By Mazen Kerbaj
Translated by the author
We Have
By Mazen Kerbaj
We have nations that we don't want.
Translated from French by the author
Letter to the Mother
By Mazen Kerbaj
Translated from French by Mazen Kerbaj & Ahmad Gharbieh
A Short Description of Lebanon
By Mazen Kerbaj
A Happy Childhood
By Mazen Kerbaj
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin