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Mohammad Sabaaneh Power Born of Dreams: My Story Is Palestine Brooklyn. Street Noise Books. 2021. 118 pages.
CONFLICT AND STRUGGLE, both political and personal, have long been potent subjects for literature. And in the past forty years, ever since Maus, graphic memoirs and novels have taken up similar themes. From Maus and Persepolis to March and Rolling Blackouts and many others, graphic novelists have deployed image and word to tackle very difficult subjects. Mohammad Sabaaneh now joins their ranks.
Power Born of Dreams is a dark work, both visually and metaphorically, yet there are splashes of gallows humor and insights into many of the vagaries of the human condition. Set for the most part in an Israeli prison,...