The Flavors of Iraq
1989. My first trip to Iraq. The taste of apricot. âNever say Saddamâs name.â
The Western media largely glossed over the immense human suffering that occurred in Iraq during the embargo of the 1990s and the Iraq War. With this innovative and award-winning graphic novel, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani sets that record straight.
The Flavours of Iraq unfolds as a series of one thousand tweets. In them, Alani describes his experiences in Iraq from 1989, when he travelled from France to meet his extended family in Iraq for the first time, to 2011, when the last Americans pulled out of the country. Alani recounts the vivid impressions this place made on him as a childâits wondrous colours, tastes, and smells. He documents the sounds, silences, and smells of a war in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians lost their lives.
Illustrated by the striking art of LĂ©onard Cohen and with a foreword by Ross Caputi, a former US Marine who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, The Flavours of Iraq tells a poetic and powerful story of an oppressed population, an illegal war, and a country that no longer exists.
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1989. My first trip to Iraq. The taste of apricot. âNever say Saddamâs name.â
The Western media largely glossed over the immense human suffering that occurred in Iraq during the embargo of the 1990s and the Iraq War. With this innovative and award-winning graphic novel, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani sets that record straight.
The Flavours of Iraq unfolds as a series of one thousand tweets. In them, Alani describes his experiences in Iraq from 1989, when he travelled from France to meet his extended family in Iraq for the first time, to 2011, when the last Americans pulled out of the country. Alani recounts the vivid impressions this place made on him as a childâits wondrous colours, tastes, and smells. He documents the sounds, silences, and smells of a war in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians lost their lives.
Illustrated by the striking art of LĂ©onard Cohen and with a foreword by Ross Caputi, a former US Marine who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, The Flavours of Iraq tells a poetic and powerful story of an oppressed population, an illegal war, and a country that no longer exists.
