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Sarah Glidden. Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2016. 304 pages.
Despite their constant presence in the news, the countries traversed in this welcome graphic docu/memoir are still as alien to many North American readers as they are to the independent journalists depicted in these pages. Sarah Glidden's project is twofold: to try to define journalism on her travels as an observer and to record the human fallout of the Iraq War in the region.
In 2010 she accompanied several journalists in the Seattle Globalist coalition, who wanted to cover stories ignored in the mainstream media, on a two-month trip to the Middle East in order to document their trip. Also traveling with them was an American college student, Dan,...