{"id":12545,"date":"2020-08-30T21:51:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T01:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=12545"},"modified":"2020-08-30T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T02:02:20","slug":"mohamad-kebbewar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/mohamad-kebbewar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamad Kebbewar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Mohamad Kebbewar was born in Aleppo, Syria. He moved to Canada at the age of nineteen and earned a degree in history at Concordia University in Montreal. Following the fall of Aleppo during the Syrian civil war, Kebbewar returned to visit his parents and saw first hand the destroyed city that had been his first home. Kebbewar now lives in Vancouver, works as a graphic designer, and is finishing a novel <em>The Bones of Aleppo<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"286\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2020\/08\/Children-of-War-chapbook-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12548 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2020\/08\/Children-of-War-chapbook-cover.jpg 185w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2020\/08\/Children-of-War-chapbook-cover-97x150.jpg 97w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 185px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 185\/286;\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Children of War<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Niagara Falls, ON: Grey Borders Books, 2019.<br>Also available as a kindle e-book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>NA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"364\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2020\/08\/The-Soap-of-Aleppo-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12551 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2020\/08\/The-Soap-of-Aleppo-book-cover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2020\/08\/The-Soap-of-Aleppo-book-cover-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2020\/08\/The-Soap-of-Aleppo-book-cover-124x150.jpg 124w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/364;\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Soap of Aleppo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Saskatoon: Jack Pine Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Description<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The pages are hand bound in a saddle stitch, and then the booklet is glued inside, next to a series of Mohamad\u2019s photographs printed on a transparent vellum in sepia tones. \u00a0We wanted to echo the ghostlike feeling of the city as we witness the story of its destruction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greybordersbooks.jigsy.com\">Grey Borders Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/jackpinepress.com\">Jack Pine Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamad Kebbewar was born in Aleppo, Syria. He moved to Canada at the age of nineteen and earned a degree in history at Concordia University in Montreal. 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