Winding alleyways where you can end up getting lost—or finding yourself in someone’s courtyard. Sudanese people call them zugag, and they are not so different from the Venetian calli. Even for a world traveler, a professional outsider, finding your bearings is no easy task. Even less so is rediscovering the way to a home that is always changing.

It is into this tangle of sand and stone that Khalid Albaih, a world-renowned political and social cartoonist, leads us. A striking graphic diary, Zugag is an ironic and insightful meditation on what it means to call many places—and no place—home. The stories of Venetians overwhelmed by tourism and Sudanese people resisting displacement, though geographically distant, intertwine in this graphic essay. It invites us to question our ideas about foreignness and belonging, offering an uncompromising vision of the world as it is—and of its possibilities.

Available from March 13th, 2026.
Language: Italian.