Metro: A Story of Cairo by Magdy El Shafee

Metro: A Story of Cairo

Magdy El Shafee with Chip Rossetti (Translator)

112 pages paperback 2008

2 editions

fiction contemporary graphic novel challenging reflective tense medium-paced
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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...

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