Grants and residencies Arts The Exile, a graphic novel that speaks about exclusion and exile in the Middle Eastern and Western societies for many reasons and it will be written in Arabic and published in Finnish or English Main applicant Visual Artist, painter, poet Mohamed Khorshid Muhannad Amount of funding 28800 € Type of funding General grant call Fields Literature and verbal artVisual arts Grant year 2018 If you are the leader of this project, you can sign in and add more information. Log in Share: Back to Grants listing Application summary The Exile, a graphic novel that speaks of exclusion and exile in the Middle Eastern and Western societies because of their appearance, belief, affiliations, ethnicity or nationality. The illustrated story is a collection of short stories based on real stories and fantasy as well that have taken place in Middle Eastern societies or here In Finland. It will be an experimental illustration in terms of implementation techniques . I will attempt to raise the problem of individuality in communities . There are many individual people who live in exile within their own countries or home and they are excluded either intellectually or physically. I try to link them to the exclusion that occurs in Europe and the Nordic countries, because of the cultural or ethnic background or appearance, in their life and work . We " New comers refugees " suffered persecution from the countries that we came from and from the lack of free of expression and speech, which forced us to leave to safe heaven and here in the Nordic countries we do not want to live the same experience of oppression because of racism and populism. Project report summary During the year 2019- 2020 I was working and illustrate a graphic novel I hope it will be publish in Finnish publishing house that I am waiting them answer in 2021 . The graphic novel will be under the name ( Exiled, The Last dance ) talk about the last moments of Iraqi born performance artist and choreographer ethnicity , the main characters of the graphic Novel was kidnapped and torture for two days and killed brutally by religiously groups because he was uniqueness and his individuality and his appearance . His death was tragic and terrible for a young guy who loved beauty of life and Art. And his Homeland, I worked on the illustration side by side with writing I hope the graphic novel will be a meaningful experience in addition to the Western reader and the Arab in particular and for future generations. the novel speaks exclusion in Middle East societies and Arab world , because of the appearance , belief ,affiliations ethnicity , or because of Nationality as well Back to Grants listing