Comic Bar: Charles Berberian with “An Oriental Education”Narrated by Barbara Yelin
This event is in the past.
How do you find your identity when you were born in Baghdad to a Greek mother and an Armenian father, spent your childhood and youth in Lebanon and had to flee to France due to a civil war? This event is held in English.
This event is in the past.
How do you find your identity when you were born in Baghdad to a Greek mother and an Armenian father, spent your childhood and youth in Lebanon and had to flee to France due to a civil war? This event is held in English.
Thirty years after leaving Beirut, Charles Berberian returns to the city for the first time, to the location of his early life, to the country with its dramatic history. The result is the author’s most intimate and universal book to date – a highly topical humanist plea for dialogue between cultures.
Charles Berberian was born in Baghdad (Iraq) in 1959. Soon after, the Berberian family moved to Beirut in Lebanon, where Berberian spent most of his childhood before moving to France in the mid-seventies. He studied at the art academy in Paris, where he began to develop a passion for comics. At the beginning of the 1980s, he met the comic artist Philippe Dupuy, and it wasn’t long before the first projects of the Dupuy-Berberian team emerged. Their best-known series together, Monsieur Jean, ran until 2003. In 2008, they received the Grand Prix de la Ville d’Angoulême, France’s premier comic award.
This event will be held in English and will be streamed live on YouTube.
During the live stream, there will be an online meet-up on the Munich Public Library’s Discord server , were you can discuss and chat about the event (by voice or text) as you watch it. To take part in this “Let’s react together” meet-up, you will need a Discord account.
