Metro: A Story of Cairo

by Magdy El Shafee,  , Magdy El Shafee

Book Overview

Depicting the financial and social insecurity afflicting young people in modern Cairo, Metro was the first adult graphic novel published (and subsequently banned) in Egypt, just three years before the Arab Spring. In art as pulsing and immediate as Cairo itself, Magdy El Shafee delivers a prescient portrait of a crumbling society and Egypt's coming eruption. A powerful story of young men with nothing left to lose, Metro sounds the cry for a better,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805094881
• ISBN13: 9780805094886
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"