Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
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Average rating4.3
"Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends--reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit--as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war's refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former Marine whose past service in Iraq adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, in the eyes of the people they come across and perhaps even their own. As the crew works their way through Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, Glidden observes the reporters as they ask civilians, refugees, and officials, "Who are you?" Everyone has a story to tell: the Iranian blogger, the United Nations refugee administrator, a taxi driver, the Iraqi refugee deported from the US, the Iraqis seeking refuge in Syria, and even the American Marine."--Back cover.
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Fantastic! A candid, behind-the-scenes report on Glidden's journey to Turkey, Syria and Iraq together with a team of journalists. The graphic novels depicts their day-to-day on the trip, the interviews they do with locals and refugees, they explore the legacy of the Iraq war while Glidden also explores the nature of journalism. She pictures all the doubts and insecurities of the reporters, their challenges, their ambitions. And while the journalists think they fail in their story of the returning war-veteran, the graphic novel succeeds in telling that part of the story, with all its subtleties and awkward silences.
