![]() ![]() Mohamed’s novel introduces a world where wishes are real and sold in three tiers. For the book’s highly anticipated American publication, Mohamed translated Shubeik Lubeik into English herself and requested that the book be printed like Arabic books, to be read from right to left. Originally self-published, Shubeik Lubeik won the grand prize at the Cairo Comix Festival in 2017 by the end of the year, Mohamed had signed on with the agent who discovered Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Her richly detailed drawings imbue contemporary Cairo-and its all-too-familiar atmosphere of bureaucracy, rigid laws and class-based bias-with the magic of wishes, dragons, flying cars and talking donkeys. Shubeik lubeik translates from the Arabic to “your wish is my command,” an iconic fairy-tale phrase that’s also the title of a brilliantly original graphic novel from Egyptian comics creator Deena Mohamed.
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