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Writers
  
G. Willow Wilson

Letterers
  
Travis Lanham

Date of publication
  
November 7, 2007

Originally published
  
7 November 2007

Genre
  
Speculative fiction

Publisher
  
Vertigo

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Artists
  
M. K. Perker

Editors
  
Joan Hilty

ISBN
  
1-40121-734-6

Author
  
G. Willow Wilson

Date
  
2007

Illustrator
  
M. K. Perker

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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.

Contents

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 smuggling ring leader on the rafh pass.
  • 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

    Cairo (comics) Wikipedia
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