Today Cartoon Movement publishes Josh Neufeld's "Bahrain: Lines in Ink, Lines in the Sand" The story follows Mohammed and Sara, two young Bahraini editorial cartoonists who found themselves on opposite sides of Bahrain's short-lived Pearl Revolution.

Neufeld met Mohammed and Sara at workshops he led while visiting the tiny Persian Gulf country on a U.S. State Department trip. Shortly after Josh became friends with both of them on Facebook, Bahrain underwent much turmoil in protests inspired by the Arab Spring.

Neufeld documents their impressions of the events, through their words, experiences, and their own cartoons, which were published as events unfolded.

The New York Times recently reported on on an independent commission's findings that Bahrain used excessive force in its crackdown on protesters. "The report specifically mentions the thousands of people expelled from universities, exactly what happened to Mohammed," Neufeld says.  "The Times pieces also make a point about how different a society the country is now Again, this is something Mohammed talks about directly in the story's last page."

The divide between Shia and Sunni, between Mohammed and Sara, was characterized this way:

“There is no neutral account,” said Mohamed Helal, the commission’s legal officer.... “The community is almost living in parallel universes.” In investigating one episode, Mr. Helal said he found on the same day, at the same moment, “there was not one moment of overlap. How can you reconstruct the truth when there’s no overlap?” he asked.