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A review by sarahanne8382
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq by Sarah Glidden
4.0
This was an unexpected little gem. In 2010, Sarah Glidden traveled with several of her journalist friends to the Middle East as they plan to interview Iraqi refugees. As the non-journalist in the group, Glidden was actually tagging along to make a comic about the process of journalism and reporting in and around Iraq.
Like so many, this is a part of the world I know very little about, other than quick takes on our interventions there. The events of this book also took places months before the Arab Spring, so the Iraqi refugees they interviewed in Syria have likely mostly fled again, either back to Iraq, or yet another country. Still, it's a fascinating time capsule of interviewing a specific group of refugees and the complicated stories that led to them fleeing, as well a thoughtful examination of the role of journalism in reporting those stories.
This was something I wouldn't have sought out to read, but I enjoyed the experience and learned some things, too.
Like so many, this is a part of the world I know very little about, other than quick takes on our interventions there. The events of this book also took places months before the Arab Spring, so the Iraqi refugees they interviewed in Syria have likely mostly fled again, either back to Iraq, or yet another country. Still, it's a fascinating time capsule of interviewing a specific group of refugees and the complicated stories that led to them fleeing, as well a thoughtful examination of the role of journalism in reporting those stories.
This was something I wouldn't have sought out to read, but I enjoyed the experience and learned some things, too.