THURSDAY 25th JANUARY 2007 / ARE THE DAYS BACK?

THE DIALOG OF GENERATIONS

- mom why the war happened in lebanon?
- and how did it start?
- and when did it end?
- mom, will the war end for real one day?

- my dear children i do not understand... which war are you talking about?

THE WINTER CONTEST

reader my friend,
answer the following question and win valuable prizes (a visa to cyprus, a ticket for gasoil, 3 kg of stones, etc.)

THE QUESTION:
what is happening in lebanon?

A - A CIVIL WAR
- "with who are you?"

B - "INCIDENTS"

C - AN ARM WRESTLING
- "haaayaaaaaa"

D - A CHESS GAME
- "check mate"
- "what?"

E - "A DIALOG"

F - "IT'S NOT MY FAULT"
- "me?"

Send your answer to the closest leader. you can also send it to a half-leader if you don't find a leader near you.

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the hot winter
is falling on
and rising from
BEIRUT

the sun follows the sun

and i am still changing

tuesday 23rd january 2007

jal el dib highway / hahe el mot

THE CVIVIL WAR
OR THE WAR'S CIVILIANS?

- "what are you doing?"
- "i am drawing, and you?"

* new * new * new *

mazen kerbaj
beyrouth
juillet-aout 2006

printed in italy and published in france by l'association
256 pages - 25 euros

book signing in paris on
- 8th of february 2007 at librairie super-héros
- 9th of february 2007 at librairie le monte-en-l'air - 6, rue des panoyaux, 75020, ménilmontant


exhibition and book launch/signing in lebanon: 7th of march 2007 at gallerie janine rubeiz

thursday 18th of january 2007

it's 11 AM

- "my head is heavier than 5 bottles of champagne."

wednesday 17th of january 2007

mazen and rasha and marc and champagne

- "in the torino."
- "celebrating the publishing of the book."

score (at midnight): 5 bottles

tell me what you love and i'll tell you who you are.

i do not
LOVE LIFE

and i do not
LOVE COLORS

and i do not
LOVE BLACK AND WHITE

and i do not even
LOVE grey

and i do not
LOVE ANYTHING AND ANYONE

is it possible that me also
WE WANT TO LIVE IN THIS COUNTRY


note to the lebanese reader: please feel free to print this drawing and forward it to as much people as you can.

note for the international reader: do not try to understand this drawing (and the one before). they are directly connected to the situation on the ground in lebanon today.

the advertising war

- "even in the usa they are answering the "i love life" campaign."

am i you?

...

an analysis trial

in the (al akhbar newspaper) issue of tuesday 9th of january 2007, my colleague areej mahmoud answered to one of my drawing, and today we will try to see what could be understood from his drawing.

areej's drawing:
"everybody listened to mazen, but he didn't listen to himself."

what is the reader's take out from this drawing:

- one (orange): that i do play music.
- two (blue): that the audience who come to my gigs are risking their lives by doing so.
- three (red): they i don't have an ear to listen to my music.
- four (violet): that i am refined in the choice of my sounds
- and last (green): that my friend areej do not have neither an ear nor an eye.

TO AREEJ: that's how a trumpet should be drawn.

headache

i have a pain in the head

and the
PANADOL
is out of stock from the country

so i bought a saw

i have no pain anymore

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- "a single voice."

ps: this winter the a trio will be playing in berlin, amsterdam, den haag, riga (latvia) and other places next to your door. please join the mailing list to be informed.

thursday 11th of january 2007

THE MAN WHO PENETRATED THE BARRIER OF SOUND
free improvised music concert

monnot theater
solos night

sharif sehnaoui
mazen kerbaj
raed yassin
charbel haber

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what do you think of stopping drawing and start working like everybody?
you're over thirty now, it's more than time that you grow up a little.

always

between the fire AND the fire

between the sun AND the sun

between the red AND the yellow

me AND you

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my brain is thinking of what it could draw

and my eyes are seeing

what my hand decided to draw

the eternal question

who will shut-up this guy one day?

- "ha ha ha hail..."

head #1

irak? palestine?
somalia? iran?
syria? usa? my room?

the waiting

"the idea came!"

but there is no more place to draw it.

I SEE

from behind the pipe

I SEE

a cedar
a sun
or?

a moon?
a sea?
trees?

the eternity kiss

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the time: night of 4th to 5th of january 2007
the place: my parent's flat
the general situation: sickness
the page situation: whitness
the close future situation: unknown

The BLOGGER HELP TEAM are a bunch of clowns

i've been sick for a while. in bed for 5 days. i am recovering a little bit.
i connected to the net for the first time since wednesday, and i was sure that the great BLOGGER HELP TEAM to who i sent a long desperate email urging them to help me, have fixed the problem or at least have replied to explain to me what to do. as the titles suggest it, they did nothing. meanwhile, laure ghorayeb's blog has been down for more than 2 weeks because of their transfer to "the new blogger."
all this just to announce that we won't wait anymore and that laure opened a new blog to be able to upload her new drawings. here's the address:
http://lghorayeb.blogspot.com/
i'll be back tomorrow or monday for new drawings.

the annual "passage of the year" drawing

note: to be able to read this three pages story, please click on the image, then on the "all sizes" button, and finally on the "original" button.

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- "i do not understand..."

- "... why you drew all of us?"

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new year's eve
2006 to 2007
it is 45 AM
everybody's drawing and i am dancing...
no.. everybody's drinking
and i am dancing...
no...
everybody's dancing...
and i am drawing?
one thing is sure, everybody's
drunk

night of 31st of december 2006 to 1st of january 2007

night of 31st of december 2006 to 1st of january 2007

it's 2 AM and we're at lena's.

rach: "come here and dance."
ahmad: "we have to leave."
mazen: "let me finish this drawing."
unknown: "and let me finish this joint."

it's now 3 AM.

lena: "everybody out."
randa: "come on mazen, dance with us."
dala: "let's go, lena wants to leave."

3.30 AM

- "mazen came and dance"
and everybody's dancing.

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YEEPEE

- "2007 !! We're all going to die."

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BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TODAY

they hanged saddam
more than 1000 times

BETWEEN THE TV AND THE COMPUTER

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THE HONORABLE LADY LAURE GHORAYEB

29 december 2006
mom's birthday is the birthday of birthdays (arabic song)

- "you made me wait 75 years to draw me that ugly?"

the impossible kiss