A remarkable recounting of a human journey through an inhumane world. What does it mean to be a "refugee"? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to identify with others' experiences when you haven't been in their shoes. In Hakim's Odyssey, we see firsthand how war can make anyone a refugee. Hakim, a successful young Syrian who had his whole life ahead of him, tells his story: how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, his friends, his home, and his business. After the Syrian uprising in 2011, Hakim was arrested and tortured, his town was bombed, his business was seized by the army, and members of his family were arrested or disappeared. This first leg of his odyssey follows Hakim as he travels from Syria to Lebanon, Lebanon to Jordan, and Jordan to Turkey, where he struggles to earn a living and dreams of one day returning to his home. This graphic novel is necessary reading for our time. Alternately hopeful and heartbreaking, Hakim's Odyssey is a story about what it means to be human in a world that sometimes fails to be humane.

Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey (HAKIMS ODYSSEY GN)

Toulmé, Fabien

History

Graphic Mundi - PSU Press

What choices would you make to reunite your family? "You know, Haidi, we're going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama." In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and selling what he can in the streets, it's hard to survive--and impossible for the family to stay together. Reluctantly separated from the woman he loves and alone with his child, Hakim will have to overcome incredible odds and seemingly impossible obstacles to reunite his family, which leads him to make the most difficult decision of his life. Captivating and deeply moving, this second book of the critically acclaimed Hakim's Odyssey follows the true story of a Syrian refugee as he tries to find his way in Turkey and then makes the perilous trek to what he hopes will be a more settled life in Europe.

Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece (HAKIMS ODYSSEY GN)

Graphic Mundi

Review\nBOOKLIST (STARRED) -- French comics creator Toulmé’s stupendous trilogy concludes Hakim’s epic three-year odyssey from war-torn Syria to finally reaching safety in France. Chute returns to deftly translate the third volume. To remind audiences of previous events―though reading in order is a gratifying must―Toulmé cleverly begins with a high-school visit to talk about his first two Hakim books. The summary he shares―again using palettes of browns and blues to denote past events―is brilliantly overlaid as panels above the blue, red, and purple spread representing his current presentation to the students. His Q&A interaction provides a clever opportunity for sharing illuminating context about refugees and migrants, French laws and processes, and an adroitly inserted study underscoring the long-term benefits to a host country that receives asylum seekers. From school, Toulmé heads to visit Hakim to continue their interviews that will become Book 3. Toulmé empathically, gorgeously recreates the rest of Hakim and his toddler son’s harrowing journey through Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, and Switzerland, to reach France and rejoin wife Najmeh and her family. Toulmé soberly emphasizes that beyond reunion, “in ‘real life,’ [Hakim’s] story didn’t end when he got to Aix-en-Provence. Once the joy of reunification had passed, Hakim and his family had to face the harsh reality of integration into their new country.” Toulmé’s meticulous epilogue proves especially, poignantly rewarding.\nPUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) -- Syrian refugee Hakim takes an excruciating, impossible-seeming journey to reunite with his family in France in the fraught final volume of comics journalist Toulmé's keenly reported saga of the refugee crisis (following From Turkey to Greece). Hakim, who fled Syria during its civil war, takes a dangerous, makeshift route to France since bureaucratic red tape kept him from joining his family there legally. But once in Europe, Hakim has to choose his path carefully: from Macedonia, the only affordable option is through Hungary, a country that's hostile to migrants and where Hakim might be forced to “register” as an asylum seeker and be confined to a camp, which would prevent him from applying for asylum in other more favorable nations. Reluctantly, Hakim decides to take his chances. While it's clear early in this trilogy that Hakim will land in France, the hurdles he faces make his success feel like a miracle. Toulmé's affecting storytelling depicts the vast differences of each country's treatment of migrants, as well as the Kafkaesque maze many ordinary people fleeing hardships face. Series fans will appreciate this thoughtful conclusion, and the completed trilogy should gain a wider readership as well as ready adoption into schools or reading groups. (Oct.)\nThe end of a journey, the beginning of a new life. 
―I’m Syrian, and I got here from Turkey. 
―Whoaaa! That’s a hell of a trip! 
―You could say that . . . I left home almost three years ago. 
After being rescued from the Mediterranean, Hakim and his son reach European soil, full of hope. But before they can get to France, they face a new series of challenges: overcrowded detention centers, run-ins with border police, and a persistent xenophobia that seems to follow them almost everywhere they go. Will Hakim’s determination and the kindness of strangers be enough to carry him to the end of his journey and reunite his family? 
By turns heart-warming and heart-wrenching, this final installment in the Hakim’s Odyssey trilogy follows Hakim and his son as they make their way from Macedonia to the south of France. Based on true events, it lays bare the tremendous effects that the policies of wealthy countries and the attitudes of their people have on the lives of the displaced and dispossessed.

Hakim’s Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France (HAKIMS ODYSSEY GN)

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Community & Culture

Les Reflets du monde: En lutte

DELCOURT

Obra nominada a los premios Eisner 2022 y ganadora del Prix Franceinfo como el mejor cómic de actualidad y reportaje. &nbsp; «Jamás pensé que esto pudiese pasar, y me doy cuenta de que cualquiera puede convertirse en refugiado... Solo hace falta que tu país se desmorone. Y o te caes con él, o te marchas». &nbsp; Esta es la historia real de Hakim, un joven sirio que tuvo que abandonarlo todo: su familia, sus amigos, su propio negocio, su país... Y así se convirtió en refugiado. Porque estalló la guerra, porque lo torturaron, porque supuestamente el país vecino podría ofrecerle un futuro y seguridad. Un testimonio intenso y conmovedor sobre lo que significa ser humano en un mundo que a menudo se olvida de serlo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Nominated for the Eisner Awards 2022 and winner of the Prix Franceinfo as the best current affairs and journalism comic. &nbsp; A remarkable recounting of a human journey through an inhumane world. &nbsp; What does it mean to be a "refugee"? It is easy for those who live in relative freedom to ignore or even to villainize people who have been forced to flee their homes. After all, it can be hard to identify with others' experiences when you haven't been in their shoes. &nbsp; In Hakim's Odyssey, we see firsthand how war can make anyone a refugee. Hakim, a successful young Syrian who had his whole life ahead of him, tells his story: how war forced him to leave everything behind, including his family, his friends, his home, and his business. After the Syrian uprising in 2011, Hakim was arrested and tortured, his town was bombed, his business was seized by the army, and members of his family were arrested or disappeared. This first leg of his odyssey follows Hakim as he travels from Syria to Lebanon, Lebanon to Jordan, and Jordan to Turkey, where he struggles to earn a living and dreams of one day returning to his home. &nbsp; This graphic novel is necessary reading for our time. Alternately hopeful and heartbreaking, Hakim's Odyssey is a story about what it means to be human in a world that sometimes fails to be humane.

La odisea de Hakim: 1. De Siria a Turquía / Hakim's Odyssey: Book 1: from Syria to Turkey (La Odisea De Hakim / Hakim's Odyssey) (Spanish Edition)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Bruguera

INESQUECÍVEIS

Nemo

FABIEN TOULME - NON E TE CHE

Bao Publishing

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