Metro

by Magdy El Shafee

This is the first graphic novel in Arabic. It’s almost uncannily prescient. Its hero is a young computer engineer who is gypped out of this rightful earnings by a collusion between corrupt businessmen and foreign companies. His girlfriend goes on marches and takes part in demonstrations, and, by the end, the hero also feels himself pulled into it. It was confiscated when it was published; it’s not available in Egypt. Its author was tried and found guilty of offending public morals.