Three accomplished artists discuss graphic storytelling and the relationship between words, images and autobiographical content. Zeina AbiRached is an illustrator, graphic novelist and filmmaker from Beirut. Her titles include Beyrouth-catharsis; 38, Rue Youssef Semaani and Mourir, partir, revenir - Le jeu des hirondelles. Judith Vanistendael (Belgium) creates comics that depict daily life in a realistic way. Author of the semiautobiographical Dance by the Light of the Moon, her latest graphic novel is When David Lost his Voice, a moving story about cancer and its effect on one ordinary family. Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese artist, musician and comic cartoonist. His comic strip diary Journal 1999 was published in 2000 and he has published eleven books and several short stories since then. Chaired by the artist and writer nadine Touma, founder of the Dar Onboz publishing house.