{"id":6062,"date":"2023-12-08T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2023-12-08T16:36:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:36:22","slug":"uae-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/12\/08\/uae-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/stormtheblock-300x248.webp\" alt=\"Storm the Block poster\" class=\"wp-image-6063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/stormtheblock-300x248.webp 300w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/stormtheblock-768x635.webp 768w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/stormtheblock-600x496.webp 600w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/stormtheblock.webp 959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robsalkowitz\/2023\/12\/07\/a-comics-sandstorm-is-brewing-in-the-gulf-as-uae-unveils-massive-investment-in-creative-industries\/\">Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, A Comics Sandstorm Is Brewing In The Gulf As UAE Unveils Massive Investment In Creative Industries, 7 Dec 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The festival is a showcase for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sandstormcomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sandstorm<\/a>, a new Emirati comics imprint developed through investment from the UAE\u00a0government as a means of promoting new talent and stories from the Gulf and the Arabic-speaking world, featuring content, aesthetics and themes that resonate with the 450 million inhabitants of the Middle East and North Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, A Comics Sandstorm Is Brewing In The Gulf As UAE Unveils Massive Investment In Creative Industries, 7 Dec 2023 &#8220;The festival is a showcase for\u00a0Sandstorm, a new Emirati comics imprint developed through investment from the UAE\u00a0government as a means of promoting new talent and stories from the Gulf and the Arabic-speaking world,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[702,425],"tags":[360,280,701],"class_list":["post-6062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-books","category-uae-digital","tag-comic-books","tag-uae","tag-uae-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6064,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions\/6064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}