(right to left anticlockwise) - "I'm not going to give you any guarantees, other than that the police doesn't have time for us. Everyone is tied up with the safety and security of one person only, and any surprise will run right by them"
"But Shihab Basha, this time we could go to jail..."
"Mustafa, prison in this country is for the poor, and you are going to get rich...Yalla?"
"Mustafa, do you remember the trap we have got all these people into...the trap is open. We are the ones just sitting inside it because no one has ever tried to get out of it..."
After two weeks, in Mohammed Naguib Metro Station...
No guarantees...No difficulties either...
Metro
by Magdy al-Shafi'i
the First Graphic Novel in Arabic
Published by Dar Malameh (Features)
I am really excited about this. Many will say that this is yet another step towards the "Westernization" of Arabic literature, but I seriously think that popular literature in Arabic, especially in Egypt, where due to the poor education system, relatively few people are reading seriously, needs to be given a fillip. I will try to find a copy of this when I am not reading Abbasid poetry about liquor and and wine-bearing girls dressed like smooth beautiful boys.
(tarboush tip: Taken from the blog of contemporary Egyptian novelist Mohammad `Alaa el-Din.)
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Metro: The First Graphic Novel in Arabic
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This isn't the first Arabic graphic novel. I have one that tells the story of al nakbeh. I'll find the title and post later.
aha! my orientalist knowledge of the other is obv not on point!
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