Metro A Story of Cairo

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Metro A Story of Cairo by El Shafee, Magdy; Rossetti, Chip, 9780805094886
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  • ISBN: 9780805094886 | 0805094881
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Copyright: 6/5/2012

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When Shihab runs afoul of a loan shark, all avenues of salvation in Mubarak's corrupt, oppressive Egypt are closed to him but one: robbing a bank. Things go wrong: In their blow against their crumbling society, Shihab and his friend Mustafa happen on evidence of vice that points to the upper reaches of the regime. On a wild chase through Cairo's metro system, Shihab and Mustafa turn to family and friends for refuge, which is offered only by Dina, a muckraking journalist who, for Shihab, will take the greatest of risks. In art as alive and immediate as Cairo itself, Magdy El Shafee has delivered an arresting and prescient portrait of a crumbling society and Egypt's coming eruption. A powerful story of comrades on the lam and an impossible love, Metroalso sounds the cry for a better, freer future.
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