Cairo (comics)

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.

• 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. The character is based on the similarly named Meccan poet.