A lot of very exciting things happened in 2018. After three years of hard and dangerous work, Molly and Marwan published Brothers of The Gun through Penguin Random House in May.
The book has been getting amazing reveiws from around the world, is a New York Times Notable book, and was a semifinalist for the National Book award.
The book tour has taken Molly to speaking events and literary festivals all over the US, and to London, Paris, Istanbul, Delhi and Mumbai. Syria In Ink, an exhibition of the original artwork from the book, opened at the Brooklyn Public Library, with simultaneous exhibits at Amnesty International HQ in London and BANT Havuz in Istanbul. The show is currently on tour.
Life drawings from Mumbai are currently available in the shop!
Molly also did quite a lot of writing for the NY Review of Books including a cover story on refugees, essays on Puerto Rico’s greatest poet Julia De Burgos, the Turkish invasion of Afrin, and The Jewish Labor Bund, the forgotton Jewish revolutionary party. She also contributed illustrations for an article by Rohini Mohan about Dehli’s farmer protests, in addition to illustrating a piece about gang violence in El Salvador for The International Crisis Group and contributed drawings to Feeling of Being Watched, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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My first cover story for New York Review of Books, reviewing three new graphic novels about refugees
Molly also wrote about covered Trump’s manufactured border crisis for Rolling Stone, America’s destruction of Raqqa forThe Guardian, and the murder of Iraq’s instagram queen as well as the potential invasion of Idlib for New York Times.
From “Scenes From an American Trajedy: The Texas Border Crisis” in Rolling Stone
From “If the Regime Comes Here, Everyone Will be Targeted” in The New York Times
Molly illustrated the cover of Pretty Things, her third book cover for french pulp author Virginie Despentes.
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In a collaboration with Ms Saffaa, Molly installed new murals at The Owls Head wine bar in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and in Barrio Mariana, Puerto Rico.
And some of her art was even wheatpasted up around NYC
Molly and the lovely folks at Sharp As Knives also release this video about the money bail industry, narrated by John Legend. They also worked on several short films for Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum.
In Jakarta, Molly collaborated the the Indonesian feminist collective House of the Unsilenced to do portraits of refugees and women who had had abortions.
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Honored to do this collaboration with @elizavitri for @unsilenced_ . Please read her words
Molly also translated several “Know Your Rights” pamphlets into Arabic for the DSA and painted a few protest banners
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Molly spoke at the Chicago Ideas Festival, Tata Literature Live!, the Zee Jaipur literature Festival in Boulder, and will be speaking at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India in January.
There’s a lot to look forward to this year, including the announcement that Molly will be an artist-in-residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU in spring of 2019!
Looking forward to bringing you more art, writing, and resistance in the New Year
