Toufic El Rassi
Auteur van Arab in America
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Werken van Toufic El Rassi
Comics (in McSweeney's 33 - EGGERS) 1 exemplaar
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- 1978
- Geslacht
- male
- Geboorteplaats
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Woonplaatsen
- Beirut, Lebanon
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Beroepen
- Lecturer
Graphic Novel Writer and Illustrator - Korte biografie
- Toufic El Rassi was born in Beirut in 1978 to an Egyptian mother and Lebanese father. He immigrated to Chicago a year later as his family escaped the civil war in Lebanon. He is a college lecturer in history and political science, a writer, and a graphic novelist and commentator on Middle Eastern affairs. He lives in Chicago.
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It's a sad tale, but the problem I have is that the kind of things he complains about just seem to be the usual idiots that people encounter, and then forget. He clearly hasn't, and worse then seems to ascribe those worst characteristics to all Americans. Beyond that, he is also horrified at the horrors perpetrated against arabs by Western powrs, but says not a word about those perpetrated by Arabs (the first gulf war being a case in point - nothing about Saddam Hussein and the Ba'athist regime for invading Kuwait).
A frustrating read, which I didn't feel worked as anything more than polemic.
To be fair, I may be misremembering some of this, but I honestly don't think the book is worth going back in order to give the benefit of the doubt.… (meer)