The Wolf of Baghdad

 

– a memoir of a lost homeland by Carol Isaacs/The Surreal McCoy

 

The Wolf of Baghdad was published as a graphic memoir in 2020 by independent UK publisher Myriad Editions, (click here). It was one of the Guardian’s best graphic works of that year and tells of my family’s bittersweet memories of their lost Iraqi homeland.

It is also designed to be shown as a slideshow (motion comic) with its own soundtrack accompanied by musicians playing Judeo-Arabic and Iraqi repertoire. The motion comic is now available to rent as a livestream, or buy as a download from this website’s shop. Also available as a DVD-ROM and CD soundtrack.

THE WOLF OF BAGHDAD ANIMATION: PREVIOUS SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCES

November 2025 Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media Festival, Philadelpia PA, USA

May 2025, screening at Tokyo Jewish Film Festival, Japan

December 2024, screening at Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, Israel

August 2024, screening at Magen David Synagogue, Rockville, MD USA

May 2024, screening at Tokyo Jewish Community center, Japan

September 2023, screening at Oslo Jewish Museum, Norway

September 2023, screening at Jewish Cultural Festival, Trondheim, Norway

October 2023, screening at Toronto Holocaust Museum, Canada

September 2022, screening at Sao Paulo Festival of Jewish music, Brazil

August 2022, screening at ANIMIX animation festival, Tel Aviv, Israel

March 2022, screening at Primrose Hill Library, London

December 2021, screening at LIMMUD 2021

October 2021, live performance at Tstsit Festival, London

May 2020, live performance at Songlines Encounters Festival, Kings Place, London POSTPONED DUE TO COVID

February 2020, screening (US premiere) at The New York Sephardic Film Festival 2020, New York USA

January -February  2020, Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, Kerala, India

March 2020, live performance and DVD launch at JW3, London

November 2019, live performance at UK Jewish Film Festival, London

February 2019, live performance at Ahbab Music festival, Cambridge, UK

February 2019, live performance at Brunei Gallery, SOAS University, London.

November, 2018, live performance premiere at JW3, London