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6 - Draw Me a Gun

Radical Children’s Books in the Trenches of ‘Arab Hanoi’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2020

Zeina Maasri
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University of Brighton
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Mobilized by radical networks of solidarity, stretching from Cuba, through Algeria and all the way to Vietnam and China, an anti-imperialist revolutionary subjectivity was constituted through a global flow of discourses and associated visuality. In this globally expansive revolutionary geography, Beirut — dubbed the 'Arab Hanoi' — acted as a nodal site in and through which an aesthetic of solidarity with the Palestinian liberation movement converged and circulated along transnational circuits. Chapter 6 focuses on the publications of Dar al-Fata al-Arabi, a vanguard pan-Arab children’s publishing house linked to the PLO, which launched from Beirut in 1974. It examines how it came to represent a radical node of transnational solidarity among Arab artists, intellectuals and writers committed to the Palestinian cause and to revolutionary change in the Arab world. In tracing the social life of a particular publication, entitled The Home, from production in Beirut to international itinerary accompanying Yasser Arafat’s landmark speech at the UN in 1974, the chapter reflects on the historical junctures and disjuncture of the Palestinian struggle with global politics of decolonization; the aesthetics of revolutionary armed struggle and the translocal figure of the freedom fighter; tensions between radical art and diplomacy; and last but not least, the utopias and disenchantment of a generation of politically committed Arab artists and intellectuals.

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Cosmopolitan Radicalism
The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties
, pp. 211 - 242
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Draw Me a Gun
  • Zeina Maasri, University of Brighton
  • Book: Cosmopolitan Radicalism
  • Online publication: 20 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767736.008
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  • Draw Me a Gun
  • Zeina Maasri, University of Brighton
  • Book: Cosmopolitan Radicalism
  • Online publication: 20 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767736.008
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  • Draw Me a Gun
  • Zeina Maasri, University of Brighton
  • Book: Cosmopolitan Radicalism
  • Online publication: 20 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767736.008
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