Welcome to the spring newsletter! Opening with news of The Cloak From Baghdad, my adaptation of The Wolf of Baghdad for middle grade readers (ages 9-12). It will be published later this year on September 1st by US company Kar-Ben publishing! Here’s a sneak preview of the cover: The story is based on my my […]
Read More 2026 SPRING NEWSLETTERA warm welcome to autumn and the latest newsletter! I was contacted by JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa) to write an article for their latest edition of Distinctions Journal. This is their online journal which regularly spotlights Sephardi and Mizrahi perspectives on pressing Jewish questions. This particular edition is all […]
Read More 2025 AUTUMN NEWSLETTERWelcome to the summer newsletter! The Wolf project is still going strong as you will see and I’m so grateful to have these continued opportunities to tell our family story. Thanks to each and every one of you who listens, it is much appreciated. Thank you Yad Mizrah magazine for setting up this interview with […]
Read More 2025 SUMMER NEWSLETTERJERUSALEM JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Last month I was honoured to be invited to screen The Wolf of Baghdad motion comic in Jerusalem. Many thanks to the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival and the British Council (Israel) for sponsoring me on this trip. It was a sold-out event and the festival had to request another screening! (Photos […]
Read More WINTER 2025 NEWSLETTERHello and welcome to my autumn newsletter! I hope summer was kind to you. Here’s some Wolf-related (and other) news for you. RECOMMENDED READING… JIMENA’s mission has always been to educate students and the larger Jewish public on Sephardic and Mizrahi heritage and history. This autumn, as part of their showcase of diverse voices in […]
Read More AUTUMN 2024 NEWSHello and welcome to the spring/summer newsletter. I hope all is well in your world. Here’s what’s been happening recently in mine… THE WOLF WENT TO JAPAN! Above: Tokyo synagogue (photo credit © Jono David 2021) Last month there was a screening at the synagogue in Tokyo for the Jewish Community of Japan followed by […]
Read More SPRING/SUMMER 2024 NEWSI hope you and your families and friends are safe and well during these troubled times. Earlier this year I was awarded funding from UK Jewish Film to produce a three-minute documentary about being Jewish in Britain. My film, called Growing Up Mizrahi, will be premiered at the UK Jewish Film Festival on Tuesday 14 […]
Read More GROWING UP MIZRAHITHe wolf goes to norway! Excited to announce that there will be two screenings of The Wolf of Baghdad in Norway next month. The first will be at the Jewish Cultural Festival in Trondheim on Saturday 2 September and the second at Oslo’s Jewish Museum on the 3 September. After both screenings there will be […]
Read More AUTUMN NEWSRecently I was approached by Jewish comics scholar and academic, Dr Matt Reingold, with the idea of producing an educator’s guide to The Wolf of Baghdad. Dr Reingold teaches Jewish history and literature in a Canadian high school and had just begun teaching the Wolf in his own 10th Grade class last year. Noticing that […]
Read More an Educator’s guide to the wolfNovember 30 is the official day to mark the departure and expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran. Originally set up in 2014 at the Israeli parliament after lobbying from groups representing those communities, it is now recognised internationally. At http://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk, Lyn Julius writes about Jewish Refugees from Arab countries: ‘Learning about them […]
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