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Comic artists and illustrators from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Palestine came together in Beirut for the seventh edition of the Mahmoud Kahil Awards last month. Prizes were awarded in an official ceremony held at Dar El-Nimer, a non-profit art and cultural space dedicated to historical, modern, and contemporary productions on March 31. “Arab comics, art and graphic novels are quite diverse,” Lina Ghaibeh, Director of the Mu’taz & Rada Sawwaf Comic Strip Initiative, toldThe New Arab. “You get a lot of the personal narratives [that are] grounded in the region. There’s a lot of soc…