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The Franco-Lebanese author, designer and illustrator returns to the origins of his picture book in the “Conversations” program. the prophet An adaptation of the philosophical tale of Khalil Gibran, a classic of Arabic literature.
Deeply marked by the war in Lebanon, Zeina Abirached has drawn inspiration from it for each of her books. Between the debt of memory and childhood memories, Beirut, his hometown, is often the “protagonist” of his works. For an illustrated adaptation of a philosophical tale Prophet , to Khalil Gibran, a classic of Arabic literature, the idea was not his, but his editor’s. Zeina Abirached admits she wouldn’t have thought of it on her own, but she was immediately drawn to the offer. He tells Joseph Goss, deputy editorMadame Figaro
In the program “Conversations”. “After a surprise, I started reading this book again, and it was the introduction that made me start this adventure, which was quite difficult.”
With his characteristic black and white aesthetic, he preserved the original text and adapted it to an illustrated form. Zeina Abirached explains: “My idea was to accompany the text, to suggest something in the image, but also to keep the moments where the reader has room to express himself, to dream, to imagine things.” Awarded as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters since 2016, the author likes to do things differently; “I don’t start with a white page, but always with a black page.”
Source: Le Figaro
