Feurat Alani Author

Born in France to Iraqi parents, Feurat Alani is a French-Iraqi journalist and author. He was a news correspondent in Baghdad from 2003 to 2008 for I Télé, Ouest France, La Croix, and Le Point. In 2008, Alani returned to Paris to work on the television newsmagazine L’Effet papillon. He is the cofounder of the production companies Baozi Prod and In Sight Films. Alani collaborates regularly with the newspaper Le Monde diplomatique, the website Orient XXI, the magazine Géo, and as a reporter and producer with Art, France 24, and Canal+. His award-winning graphic novel Le Parfum d’Irak was published in 2018 and later as a web series.

Léonard Cohen is a French animator based in Oakland, California. He earned his master’s degree in animation at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2009. His film Plato was selected in many festivals and won multiple awards. Cohen designed the TV series Le Chiffroscope, which ran weekly for three seasons (2012–15) on L’Effet papillon.