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| Author | Mazen Kerbaj |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | OR Books |
| Publication date | 2025 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, ebook |
| Pages | 144 |
| ISBN | 9781682196434 |
Gaza In My Phone is a 2025 book by Lebanese artist, musician, and comics author Mazen Kerbaj, published by OR Books. The book collects black-and-white drawings made by Kerbaj in response to images of the war in Gaza that circulated through phones and social media.[1]
Background and content
[edit]Kerbaj began drawing in response to images and reports of the war in Gaza seen through his phone. The book presents the drawings as a sequence of political cartoons and visual responses to mediated images of violence.[2]
Reception
[edit]Elisa Pierandrei, writing for The New Arab, described the book as a 144-page work in which simple black drawings and short written messages chronicle violence against Palestinians in Gaza after 7 October 2023.[3]
Andy Oliver reviewed the book for Broken Frontier, describing it as a collection of one-page cartoons and discussing Kerbaj's direct visual style and the book's use of images of Gaza viewed through a phone.[4]
In Graphic Medicine, Velebita Koričančić discussed the book through the metaphors of "media shrapnel" and "cartooning as urgent care", reading Kerbaj's work in relation to trauma, public health, graphic journalism, and mediated images of war.[5]
A review in the journal European Comic Art described the book as a visual record of violence in Gaza as witnessed and circulated through social media applications such as Instagram.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gaza In My Phone". OR Books. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ^ Pierandrei, Elisa (5 March 2025). "Gaza in My Phone: A harrowing look at Israel's genocide through the drawings of Lebanese comics artist Mazen Kerbaj". The New Arab. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ^ Pierandrei, Elisa (5 March 2025). "Gaza in My Phone: A harrowing look at Israel's genocide through the drawings of Lebanese comics artist Mazen Kerbaj". The New Arab. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ^ Oliver, Andy (12 January 2026). "Gaza in My Phone - Mazen Kerbaj's Powerful Account of Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Gaza". Broken Frontier. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ^ Koričančić, Velebita (28 April 2026). "Media Shrapnel, Cartooning as Urgent Care: Emergency Witnessing in Mazen Kerbaj's Gaza in My Phone". Graphic Medicine. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
- ^ Sangai, Shreya (2026). "Review: Mazen Kerbaj, Gaza In My Phone". European Comic Art. doi:10.1177/14704129261434463.
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