Baddawi Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo Blood of the Virgin is

Blood of the Virgin is a story about storytelling—the stories people tell themselves and others

Gharib fiercely claims her own American dream

while honestly dealing with a host of other real-world issues

if not a century

straightforward artwork is perfectly matched with the text

Baddawi Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo Blood of the Virgin isBy Leila Abdelrazaq. Published by Just World. Softcover, 128 pages, B&W, 2015. Baddawi is the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the many thousands of refugee children born to Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel. In this visually arresting graphic novel, Leila Abdelrazaq