The Apartment in Bab El-Louk

“The Apartment in Bab El-Louk is a graphic novel combining art and literature. In just 84 pages, downtown Cairo comes to life in all its messy glory: a succinct metaphor for post-revolutionary Egyptian society as a whole.” BookBlast.com“The Apartment in Bab El Louk is a collaborative tour-de-force. This book gives English readers a taste of the exciting energy of Egypt′s burgeoning, collaborative graphic-novel scene.” Qantara“Ganzeer elegantly laid out the text, the scattered rantings of an agoraphobic misanthrope, more poetry than prose—alongside images of the gritty downtown flat. You’re forced to listen to the anonymous narrator, screaming at unwanted visitors, neighbours and maids who knock on the door of the cramped apartment. Hitchcock...