Zeina watches her neighbors act out a scene from Cyrano de Bergerac in a bombed-out house in this city in the graphic novel A Game for Swallows. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city that is “remembered” in a graphic novel by Zeina Abirached (“ah-bee-RAH-shed”). This is the birth city of Amin Maalouf, who wrote a nonfiction history of the Crusades via the perspective of the Arabs.
ANSWER: Beirut [accept I Remember Beirut]
[10h] Like the rest of his novels, Amin Maalouf wrote this novel in French since both he and Abirached moved to France. In this novel, the historian Gebrayel tells the legend of an object shaped like the seat of a throne.
ANSWER: The Rock of Tanios
[10e] In this autobiographical graphic novel by French émigré Marjane Satrapi, she secretly listens to rock music while growing up in Tehran during the Iranian revolution.
ANSWER: Persepolis
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