Hakim’s Odyssey

In Hakim’s Odyssey, Syrian author Fabien Toulmé adapts the real-life journey of Hakim, a man forced to flee his homeland, into a quietly powerful three-issue graphic novel series. Published by Penn State University Press beginning in 2021, the work traces a single, sprawling refugee experience across borders and years, rendered in Toulmé’s distinctive, empathetic linework. It matters as a thoughtful, human-scaled contribution to the literature of displacement, grounding a global crisis in one person’s resilient story.