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

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