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The Case of the Arabic Noirs

August 28, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Culture, Egypt, Jonathan Guyer, Translating Dissent, Translation

August 20, 2014 | by Jonathan Guyer Cairo: the metal detector beeps. The security man wears a crisp white uniform. He nods and leans back in his chair. The lobby’s red oriental carpet, so worn it’s barely red, leads upstairs to the hotel tavern. Enter the glass doors, where a cat in a smart bow tie and vest reaches for a lonely

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Ahmed Mourad, Ahmed Nady, Arabic, Arabic noir, Baghdad Central, censorship, comic, crime novels, Diary of a Country Prosecutor, Donia Maher, Egypt, Elliott Colla, Ganzeer, graffiti, graphic novel, Jonathan Guyer, Literary Translation, Magdy El-Shafee, Metro: A Story of Cairo, noir poem, Oum Cartoon, pulp fiction, Tawfik Al-Hakim, The Apartment in Bab El-Louk, thrillers, Vertigo

Egypt’s nascent street art movement under pressure

August 28, 2014 Mona Baker Bahia Shehab, Citizen Media, Culture, Egypt, Street Art, Translating Dissent

Graffiti artists face threats of violence, and the potential of jail time and fines under a proposed draft law By Shahira Amin / 22 August, 2014 Before the January 2011 uprising, street art was little known in Egypt. Then came the revolution and with it, an outburst of creativity. With the fall of the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian artists who

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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, April 6 movement, Bahia Shehab, Egypt, Egyptian Revolution, graffiti, Hisham Rizk, Index on Censorship, Mohamed Mahmoud Street, public space, Salma Sami, Shahira Amin, street art, Tahrir Square

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