A French journalist and writer, Feurat Alani has worked for many years in the Middle East and beyond (Afghanistan, USA). In 2019, he won the Albert Londres prize (the most prestigious French journalism award) for his graphic novel Le parfum d'Irak. Later on, his project Dans l'oeil de Feurat (“In the Eye of Feurat”), broadcast by ARTE, relies on graphic storytelling based on his memories and experiences in many countries such as Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Libya, USA, Mauritania.
Feurat explores how drawing can tell stories of war and exile while avoiding the saturation of violent images and conveying a witness’s subjectivity without betraying the facts. He is also a filmmaker (his latest documentary - to be broadcasted on ARTE - entitled Hongrie, la plateforme de l'extrême-droite explores the Viktor Orban model of illiberalism, exported and inspired by other leaders like Giorgia Meloni in Italy). Feurat Alani has published four books including two novels, Je me souviens de Falloujah and Le ciel est immense.