Ayla’s Reviews > Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches > Status Update

“There is a bigger scam at work here, which allows other scams against refugees to thrive. This is the grand scam of artificial nation-states, hard borders, rising walls, passport hierarchies and visa regimes- all built on the deluded notions of ‘purity’ vs the ‘other’ and of an ‘us’ vs a ‘them’

Getting back at it!! I think I’ll buy this one its a good reference

Really good!!! I love graphic novels need to read more

Learning so much! It’s interesting how geography is tied so closely to the US backing harmful regimes.

Bahrain:
“The country’s strategic location along the shores of the Arabian peninsula has long been precarious for its people”

Egypt:
“Trade, weapons, and capital flow freely between the EU states and Egypt… Egypt is after all a key player in protecting EU shores from the flow of refugees & migrants”

It’s impressive to see the numbers for the amount of people protesting in the streets. In Lebanon in 2019 it was 36% of the population. In Bahrain in 2011 it was 43% of the national population. I’m trying to imagine those same percentages happening around me and it’s crazy to conceptualize

I really like it so far, I like that the journalist and the comic artists are separate people and the journalist is able to comment on the artists work. First bit is about the riots in 2019/2020 in Lebanon. Kind of want to watch the video the comic references of a protester kicking an armed bodyguard in the balls