Inside Out

Author: Lina Ghaibeh
Language: English and Arabic
Series: Comics & Graphic Narratives from the Arab World قصص مصورة من العالم العربي
Publication: 2025​
Number of Pages: 104
Book Dimensions: 16.5 x 23.5 cm
Cover Type: Paper cover
ISBN: 978-614-492-019-0

In this pathbreaking collection of Lina Ghaibeh’s graphic narratives, the artist serves as moral witness to military authoritarianism in Syria; political torture and the exodus of refugees; Lebanon’s popular uprisings, Beirut’s devastating port explosion, and the ongoing genocide in neighboring Palestine. Childhood rhymes turn into commentaries on political brutality; ancient sites bear the scars of prisons and mass graves; and Gaza’s hospitals—places meant for healing—become scenes of unthinkable loss. As Ghaibeh moves inward, she shows how these outer storms echo through the anxieties of motherhood, questions of selfhood, and the tender, complicated work of caring for others when the world feels unsteady. Her art documents the everyday strength of people surviving against the odds, and reminds us that in a region marked by political upheaval the act of telling one’s own story is in itself a reaffirmation of life and an insistence on hope.