in her debut as author-illustrator

Runaan and Ethari

New York Times bestselling author Joanna Ho

in the late eighties

The Flavors of Iraq: Impressions of My Vanished Homeland Evolution in her debut as author-illustrator1989. My first trip to Iraq. The taste of apricot. Never say Saddams name. 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 Flavors of Iraq unfolds as a series of one thousand tweets. In them, Alani describes his experiences in Iraq from 1989,