Open AccessYallah Bye or the Dream of a Farewell to War
Author(s) -
Maha Badr
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.30687/tol/2499-5975/2021/23/027
Subject(s) - vision , dream , narrative , denial , spanish civil war , history , literature , media studies , art history , art , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychology , anthropology , neuroscience , archaeology
Yallah Bye , an album published by Lombard (2015), illustrates two wars marking the contemporary history of Lebanon: the civil war (1975-1990) and the war between Israel and Hezbollah (August 2006). There is an intersection between two visions: that of a Lebanese screenwriter who tells a universal autobiographical story and that of a Korean illustrator who is committed to create an authentic figurative narration. The aim of the article is to show how this medium constitutes a documentary source within the framework of a cultural and social history. By exposing the repercussions of the 2006 war, images and text reveal, via humour and denial, a dream of peace despite the current turmoil and the obsession with a past that keeps repeating itself.