![]() There's some sense of humour, but it's quite wry compared to other comic books. The jinn, meanwhile, is on a quest of his own, pursued by an evil warlock.Īt times, Cairo feels like 'Avengers Assemble' - it's a story of how these very different characters with different objectives find themselves on a road to a shared heroic adventure. All their fates become linked through a jinn and the vessel he has been bound to. An Israeli special forces soldier who finds herself on the wrong side of the Egyptian border. A young Lebanese American on his way to try and do something he thinks would be meaningful. ![]() His sister, a belly dancer, and his best friend and her fiancee, a column writing journalist. A drug runner who shuttles between Cairo and Israel & Palestine. A young Californian woman who wants to work for an NGO in Cairo to escape ennui. The plot of Cairo revolves around an ensemble of (mostly young) characters. Cairo, too, is a story of jinn and myth, fluidly intermingling with modern life in an Arab city. ![]() Written a few years before Alif the Unseen, the story predates the Arab Spring, but has similar flavours to Alif's tale. > Cairo, a graphic novel by G Willow Wilson, is in love with Egypt and the Middle East. ![]()
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