{"id":2491,"date":"2008-02-05T11:22:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T11:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2008-02-05T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T11:22:05","slug":"2008-2-5-graphic-novels-at-words-without-borders-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"Graphic novels at Words Without Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/\">Words Without Borders<\/a> is running a series of excerpts from graphic novels from around the world this month, including two from Egypt and Lebanon. The fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=KerbajHappy\">Mazen Kerbaj<\/a>, whose use of collage <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/07\/21\/beirut-artist-jams-to-bombing\/\">first surfaced<\/a> during the Lebanon war of 2006, has an account of growing up during the Lebanese civil war:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/mazen7-tm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/mazen7-tm.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"567\" alt=\"mazen7.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For Egypt, I also like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=ShaffeeMetro\">Magdy al-Shafee&#8217;s<\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=ShaffeeMetro\">The Metro<\/a><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">, which shows cynical unemployed youths planning a bank robbery. He lays it on a bit thick with the obvious political references (remember to read right-to-left, as it&#8217;s translated from Arabic):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/picture-2-tm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/picture-2-tm.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Picture 2.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Some great Cairo shots too, as well as use of the metro.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/picture-3-tm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/picture-3-tm.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Picture 3.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/\">Words Without Borders<\/a> is running a series of excerpts from graphic novels from around the world this month, including two from Egypt and Lebanon. The fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=KerbajHappy\">Mazen Kerbaj<\/a>, whose use of collage <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/07\/21\/beirut-artist-jams-to-bombing\/\">first surfaced<\/a> during the Lebanon war of 2006, has an account of growing up during the Lebanese civil war:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/mazen7-tm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/mazen7-tm.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"567\" alt=\"mazen7.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Egypt, I also like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=ShaffeeMetro\">Magdy al-Shafee&#8217;s<\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=ShaffeeMetro\">The Metro<\/a><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">, which shows cynical unemployed youths planning a bank robbery. He lays it on a bit thick with the obvious political references (remember to read right-to-left, as it&#8217;s translated from Arabic):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/picture-2-tm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/picture-2-tm.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Picture 2.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some great Cairo shots too, as well as use of the metro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/picture-3-tm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2008\/02\/picture-3-tm.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Picture 3.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[233],"tags":[81,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}