Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Pictures speak a thousand words..
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Pictures speak a thousand words..
What you need to know before your trail
Rolling Black- outs is an account of Sarah Glidden’s two-month long journey through Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. She travelled there with two reporter friends and founders of the The Seattle Globalist as they research stories on the Iraq War’s effect on the Middle East and, specifically, the refugees there.
Joining them is a former Marine and childhood friend of one of the journalists whose deployment to Iraq in 2007 adds an unexpected angle to their journey. The crew works their way through the region with the goal of asking civilians, refugees, and officials about who they are and how the war affects them personally. Everyone has a story to tell. But how to tell these stories to others? Journalism plays its part but Sarah Glidden plays her own, with illustrations to showcase these stories and more
Travel Guide
Turkey, Syria, Iraq
Not the easiest part of the world for journalists to be. Not the easiest place to get stories from people and then to get these stories to the world.
Dan who is there with Sara has his own reasons for being there and his own experiences there to draw from it – he did two tours of duty in Iraq. Dan vlogs about how he feels to be back and if he sees things through new eyes and to meet those he left behind.
The people there tell their story about how they had to leave their homes, were and still are displaced by war and how they feel about Americans being there asking questions when many blame the Americans for their situation in the first place.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Author/Guide Sarah Glidden Destination: Turkey, Syria and Iraq Departure Time: 2000s
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