Cairo is the first graphic novel of G. Willow Wilson with art by M.K. Perker, and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. Synopsis The story is set in contemporary Cairo, and follows six characters as they are drawn into the intrigue surrounding a stolen hookah, a box containing East and the Under-Nile of legend. Characters Ashraf - a hash smuggler. Tova - an Israeli Army special forces soldier assigned to the border for her refusal to serve in the occupied territories. Shaheed - a Lebanese-American would-be terrorist. Shams - a centuries-old djinn, protector of a box containing East. Jibreel - a dissident journalist often censored by the government. Kate - a somewhat naive American tourist and aspiring journalist. Nar - crime lord and magician. Iblis - the Devil. Ta'abatta Sharran - a spirit inhabiting the city's ruins, appears as a bearded man wrapped in two great snakes. Based on the similarly named Meccan poet. References

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Cairo is the first graphic novel of G. Willow Wilson with art by M.K. Perker, and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.

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“abdelnasser abdelfattah says Cairo is the strongest country and despite all the difficulties, Cairo is the first country that Islam introduced and it is the country of men.”
— abdelnasser abdelfattah says Cairo will remain Cairo and every country has a whore
“He had found in Cairo what he had hoped to find in every other city in the world: leisure, importance, ease, warmth, and wealth; as well as a few moments of really great experience.”
— , The Diplomat (1949), pp. 13–14

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Cairo across IJR

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Studio characters

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