Last year I ran an online Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the soundtrack. A total of 175 wonderful patrons contributed and I am deeply grateful to all of them. One of the rewards on offer was the promise of a social media shout-out on completion of the project and so I’d like to publicly thank the […]
Read More A Very Special Thank YouThe Jews of Iraq were bilingual in Judeo-Arabic and the local dialect of the Muslim majority (the more educated were also fluent in classical- standard Arabic). They would speak one language in the home and the other outside. In the 1970’s my uncle Nessim Hay recorded my maternal grandmother Hanini Hay (born Baghdad 1900, died in Be’er […]
Read More From The Wolf of Baghdad DVD: My Grandmother’s StoriesThe Wolf of Baghdad graphic memoir was launched this month at the Cartoon Museum in central London. An evening of divine music from Keith Clouston on oud, delicious dates and Turkish delights, pomegranates and pistachios, and a special ‘Wolf’ cocktail devised by the Museum’s own mixologist-in-residence Alison Brown. The official publication date is January 30th […]
Read More January newsIt was an honour to be invited to perform The Wolf of Baghdad at this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival. Taking place at the Phoenix Cinema, one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas in the UK (built in 1910), we had another full house with a long waiting list. Apologies to those who weren’t able to […]
Read More November NewsDelighted to announce that there will be a Wolf of Baghdad performance at this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival at 6.45pm on Tuesday 12th November at the Phoenix Cinema, London. Tickets are on sale now and you can book here. This will be a very special screening as a couple of new scenes have been added […]
Read More UK Jewish Film Festival 2019Today sees the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to fund recording the soundtrack to The Wolf of Baghdad motion comic. You can find more details and how to make a pledge here. There are lots of great rewards to be had in exchange for pledges with more to be added over the coming weeks. Rewards […]
Read More Kickstarter campaign launches today!Exciting news about The Wolf of Baghdad motion comic! Next week sees the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the recording of the music soundtrack to the motion comic. In other words, here’s your chance to pre-order your own copy of the DVD and/or CD and at the same time help fund […]
Read More Raising funds to record the soundtrackRemembering June 1 & 2 1941, a couple of dark days in our history when a pogrom was carried out against the Jewish populations of Baghdad and Basra. The pro-Nazi government had collapsed leaving the cities in a state of instability. The British had just defeated the leader Rashid Ali who had earlier led a […]
Read More Remembering the Farhud الفرهودThe Wolf of Baghdad is being published early 2020 as a graphic novel by Myriad Editions so I am currently in editing mode with their creative director Corinne Pearlman. Corinne has been at the heart of the UK’s comic scene for many years and has been giving me some wonderful creative direction already. She had […]
Read More Editing the graphic memoirCoverage of The Wolf of Baghdad reaches mainstream Arabic media through this article for Al-Monitor, written by Gilgamesh Nabeel, with fascinating accounts of the audience’s reaction to the performance in London last month: Through Baghdadi folk songs and lullabies, British-born musician Carol Isaacs sailed with dozens of Iraqis and Britons from London all the way […]
Read More “Young Iraqis re-encounter their Jewish compatriots”
