Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches From Turkey, Syria, And Iraq

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Cartoonist Sarah Glidden follows up her acclaimed debut How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less with Rolling Black- outs which details her two-month long journey through Turkey Iraq & Syria Glidden accompanies her two friends reporters & founders of the journalistic non-profit the Seattle Globalist as they research stories on the Iraq War s effect on the Middle East & specifically the war s refugees Joining them is a former Marine & childhood friend of one of the journalists whose deployment to Iraq in 2007 adds an unexpected & sometimes unwelcome viewpoint both to the people they come across & perhaps even themselves The crew works their way through the region with the goal of asking civilians refugees & 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 & even the American Marine The journalists struggle equally with how to tell these stories & with how to market them into articles people will want to read Glidden records all that she encounters with a sympathetic & searching eye What is journalism? What is its purpose? What is honesty? Painted in her trademark soft muted watercolours & written with a self-effacing humour Rolling Blackouts cements Glidden's place as one of comics' most original non-fiction voices