Ali Muhammed
Sarah Glidden is a comic strip artist who writes graphic novels often focusing on the turmoil of the Middle East. Sarah recalls her encounters to Iraq to study Iraqi refugees and the affects of the disastrous war on Arabs in Iraq and they bring along a former war veteran who Sarah desperately tries to convince n her journalistic efforts to admit the war was wrong.
The gang travels through Turkey, Iraq, and Syria (written before civil war) to interview and ask people of how the war impacted their lives and throughout this book Dan insists the war was a great event to help the Kurdish people and he pretty much ignores the consequences of so many of the Arabs in Iraq.
This book is mostly about the tensions between Sarah and dan as they meet people for their non-profit helping out war refugees and trying to get their story of how life has developed after the Us lead invasion of this once stable country of Iraq. The consequence of this war ere abstract to this group of twentysomething Americans and aid volunteers and this book captures many of the real life dialogue and interactions as the group traveled to the authoritarian governments of Bashir Al-Assad and Recep Erdogan before making their way into Iraq. The brewing storm of Syria is evident in this book written several years before the outbreak of the Syrian war as extrme inequality and poverty of refugees and the native masses was perhaps no more evident in any other middle eastern Country than Bashir assads apartheid Alewite dominated Syria. This is a great graphics art book examining the costs, consequences, and issues of a disastrous for-profit war in the Middle East and how many express opinion of it without seeing first hand accounts and results of continuing involvement in other countries
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