{"id":16545,"date":"2015-01-01T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=16545"},"modified":"2015-01-01T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T23:40:06","slug":"the-case-of-the-arabic-noirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/the-case-of-the-arabic-noirs.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Case of the Arabic Noirs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16546\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/SamSpadeMaltFalc1941Trailer.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16546\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/SamSpadeMaltFalc1941Trailer.jpg\" alt=\"One of the greatest film noir classics\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, in \u201cThe Maltese Falcon\u201d (1941)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those who\u2019re fans of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, of Philip Marlowe, and of Humphrey Bogart movies, might find this little article interesting, about the resurgence of noir fiction . . . in Cairo:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/the-case-of-the-arabic-noirs\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/the-case-of-the-arabic-noirs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for alerting me to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Those who\u2019re fans of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, of Philip Marlowe, and of Humphrey Bogart movies, might find this little article interesting, about the resurgence of noir fiction . . . in Cairo: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/the-case-of-the-arabic-noirs\/ \u00a0 Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for alerting me to it. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Case of the Arabic Noirs&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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