| 词条 | Draft:Metro - A Story of Cairo |
| 释义 | {{AFC submission|t||ts=20190130085012|u=Kerri Buckley|ns=118|demo=}} Metro - A Story of Cairo is a banned graphic novel written and illustrated by Magdy El Shafee and translated by Chip Rossetti. Shehab is a young software designer living and struggling in Cairo, and he and his friend, Mustafa, also a software developer, do some work for a businessman who promises to pay them, but then when the work is finished and delivered, he refuses to pay them anything. Broke, angy and frustrated, the two young men begin to see how their city of Cairo is changing by the day into a dark and unfriendly place. Cairo is no longer as generous to those who are just regular people - and now in the years leading up to the shadow of Mubarak's dark and corrupt Egypt, and the eventual Arab Spring, Shehab tries desperately to get a loan from a bank, needing his uncle to help him, but the uncle refuses. At the same time, a friend of Shehab and Mustafa's, an old man, tells the two he is going blind. One person, a businessman, offers to help them get a loan, but the young men witnesses this businessman's stabbing the next day, and as the man lay dying he warns the two that Egypt, and Cairo were in the throes of conspiracy from all angles, and that it was not going to get better, at least not right away. Feeling threatened and defenseless, the two plan and execute a bank robbery, and witness a murder, as well. Now, the pair have both corrupt police and thugs racing after them in an attempt to silence anyone they perceive to be an anti-government activist, and Cairo becomes even more of a maze of sinister and ruthless people who want nothing but power at any cost. In the last third of the book an anti-government protest takes place, but then suddenly turns deadly as men dressed up like protesters suddenly turn and attack the peaceful demonstrators all around them. Shehab and Mustafa navigate the city seeking safety and refuge by way of the Metro - Cairo's public transit system, and by way of the trains they maneuver their way back to some sense of safety, as the Metro, and everything about it begins to be seen as a metaphor for a passageway to safety and a sense of normalcy once again by Shehab, his girlfriend Dina, and Mustafa as a network leading away from the darkness and corruption to safety and hope. Metro - A Story of Cairo was published by Metropolitan Books, a division of Henry Holt Publishing, in English in 2012. |
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