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‘A City Neighboring Earth’ and ‘TokTok’ Win Algiers Comics Festival Prizes
This past week, the graphic novel “مدينة مجاورة الأرض,” or “A City Neighboring Earth“, by Jorj Abu Mhayya, took the 2012 International Comics Book Festival of Algeria (FIBDA) book award for a work in...
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How (and Why) You Should Become the Next Great Graphic Novelist
I hope I don’t harp on this too much, but (grown-up) comics are just…so…cool. The piece below ran in the Egypt Independent print edition, and is now online, with two elaborations from TokTok’s Mohammed...
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Ali Ferzat to Relaunch His Satirical Magazine, Al-Domari, in Egypt
Reuters and Al Ahram Hebdo both report that the great Syrian satirical cartoonist, Ali Ferzat, plans to re-launch al-Domari, or The Lamplighter, in Cairo. Ferzat was recently in Cairo, and, according...
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Formerly Banned Graphic Novel ‘Metro’ Now Available in Cairo
Five years after its initial publication, Magdy al-Shafee’s graphic novel Metro is once again available in Arabic in Egypt: By Elisabeth Jaquette “Only at Kotob Khan.” Photo: Elisabeth Jaquette. Click...
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‘Barbatoze’ Creator on What the Egyptian Graphic Novelling Scene Has, and...
For the last year, Sherif Adel has been sharing his comics, and sometimes those of some of his friends, at برباطوظ (barbatoze.tumblr.com). He shares his thoughts on blogging his work and the Egyptian...
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Graphic Novelist Magdy El Shafee Arrested Near Clashes
According to multiple sources, Magdy El Shafee was one of 39 arrested yesterday at Abdel Moneim Riyadh Square: Youm7 reported that El Shafee — godfather of the Egyptian graphic novel, who faced trials...
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Graphic Novelist Magdy El Shafee Released on Bail
Graphic novelist Magdy El Shafee, who was arrested along with 39 others — including 14 minors, a Syrian, and an American — was remanded with the others to Tora Prison for four days while an...
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If You’re in Cairo, If You’re in NYC: May 11 is Egyptian Graphic Novel Day
On May 11, if you’re one of the 28 million who live — collectively — in Cairo or New York City, then get yourself to one of these events celebrating and exploring the Egyptian graphic novel: If you’re...
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If You’re in Cairo: What Are Opposition Cartoonists Up To?
Blogger, editor, cartoonist and Fulbright fellow Jonathan Guyer(@mideastXmidwest) will be talking cartoons at Helwan University on May 14:
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The Birth of ‘Oum Cartoon’ and the New Golden Age of Egyptian Caricature
Jonathan Guyer (@mideastXmidwest) has recently launched Oum Cartoon / أم كرتون – oumcartoon.tumblr.com – a blog about Arabic cartoons. ArabLit asked him a few questions about the site: “Morsi’s...
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Mazen Kerbaj’s Newest Graphic Novel, ‘Lettre a la Mere,’ Launches Today in...
Lebanese musician, graphic novelist, and painter Mazen Kerbaj has announced the release of his long-awaited new book: The novel, Lettre a la Mere, will be published in France by L’Apocalypse. The...
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The Rising Profile of Algerian Manga
Algiers has long been a cartooning hotspot, and the International Comics Book Festival of Algeria (FIBDA) is an important annual event. But although Algiers has welcomed and celebrated both Arabophone...
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All You Need Is Comics & Algerian Love
ArabLit contributor Nadia Ghanem writes that “The sixth edition of the International Comic Strip Festival in Algiers (FIBDA) delivered just what I was looking for: Algerian Love”: By Nadia Ghanem This...
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Understanding a Revolution through Iconography: Tunisian Political Cartoonist_Z_
Neila Columbo recently listened to and met with _Z_, the Tunisian political cartoonist who blogs at http://www.debatunisie.com/: By Neila Columbo From a video profile on Z, done by Samar Media. Various...
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Ganzeer on the Visual Language of ‘The Apartment in Bab El-Louk’
This month, Words Without Borders launched its International Graphic Novels: Volume VIIII, which features an excerpt from Donia Maher, Ganzeer, and Ahmed Nady’s “The Apartment in Bab El Louk,” trans....
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Sneak Peek at Ganzeer’s New Graphic-novel Project
Ganzeer (the Egyptian artist Mohamed Fahmy) has been threatening to get to work on a big graphic novel for some time. Now it seems that he has: A few panels have appeared on his website, along with the...
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American University in Beirut Launches Sawwaf Comics Initiative; Egyptian...
Comics — and graphic novels — continue to blossom in Arabic-writing hotspots, including Algiers, Beirut, and Cairo: Starting tomorrow, the first edition of Between Cadres (BECA) — Egypt Comix Week —...
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All-new Serialized, Satirical, Sci Fi Comic Has Its Own Answer to ‘Where Is...
Today marks the launch of Sherif Adel’s “Foot 3aleyna Bokra” (“Pass By Tomorrow”), an all-new satirical SF comic that will be published on the first Wednesday of the month: The fun, campy “Pass By...
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‘The Arab of the Future': Best-selling Graphic Novel Coming to English
In Publishing Perspectives, Olivia Snaije reports on the strong foreign-rights sales of France’s 2014 bestsellers. One May release — Riad Sattouf’s L’Arabe du futur — is scheduled for release from...
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