{"id":2420,"date":"2007-11-21T07:34:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T07:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2007-11-21T07:34:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T07:34:38","slug":"2007-11-21-cairo-the-graphic-novel-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"Cairo: The Graphic Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Our friend and former Cairo mag contributor G. Willow Wilson has released her graphic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=1401211402%26tag=cairocalling-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/1401211402%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Cairo<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=16469524&amp;ft=1&amp;f=5\">NPR interviewed her about it<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the blurb from the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Journalist G. Willow Wilson brings an extraordinary fable to Vertigo in October with CAIRO, an original graphic novel illustrated by Turkish artist M.K. Perker, himself a contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker. Set in bustling modern-day Cairo, this magical-realism thriller interweaves the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, an Israeli soldier, and a genie as they navigate the city&#8217;s streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka sought by a wrathful gangster-magician.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She talks a little bit about being a journalist in Cairo, notably for the opposition press.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2007\/11\/cairo1-420.jpg\" height=\"550\" width=\"420\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Cairo1 420\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Our friend and former Cairo mag contributor G. Willow Wilson has released her graphic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=1401211402%26tag=cairocalling-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/1401211402%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Cairo<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=16469524&amp;ft=1&amp;f=5\">NPR interviewed her about it<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the blurb from the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Journalist G. Willow Wilson brings an extraordinary fable to Vertigo in October with CAIRO, an original graphic novel illustrated by Turkish artist M.K. Perker, himself a contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker. Set in bustling modern-day Cairo, this magical-realism thriller interweaves the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, an Israeli soldier, and a genie as they navigate the city&#8217;s streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka sought by a wrathful gangster-magician.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She talks a little bit about being a journalist in Cairo, notably for the opposition press.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2007\/11\/cairo1-420.jpg\" height=\"550\" width=\"420\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Cairo1 420\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}