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Egypt

Country connections can describe a setting, a maker or a programme. They do not establish nationality or production location.

Series

Bakkar

Bakkar, a young Nubian boy in southern Egypt, ventures through his village and beyond alongside his friends and his goat Rashida, learning about community, history and everyday life.

Event · all dates & editions

Comixandria

A comics gathering documented in a specialist preview and founder interview.

Event · all dates & editions

EGYCON

Dates and source references for EGYCON.

Comic

El3osba

A disparate group of Egyptian superheroes emerges in Cairo. As the team confronts crime, official suspicion and an escalating supervillain threat, Alpha struggles to unite the heroes known as El3osba.

Short film

Marco Monkey

An early experiment in Egyptian animated filmmaking produced by the Frenkel brothers before the popularity of their later Egyptian character Mish Mish Effendi. The storyline is not sufficiently documented to provide a reliable syn

Comic

Qahera

The web comic follows the adventures of Qahera, an intersectional feminist hijabi superheroine who takes matters into her own hands and enforces her own brand of gender justice. Owing her monicker to Cairo’s Arabic name, the web c

Comic

Shubeik Lubeik

A graphic novel trilogy set in a fantastical Egypt where wishes are literally for sale, and the more expensive they are the more powerful their ability to fulfill your dreams. SHUBEIK LUBEIK tells the story of three first-class wi

Comic

The Solar Grid

Centuries after a catastrophic flood, Earth is trapped in perpetual daylight by an orbital network serving the industrial interests of Mars. When scavengers Mehret and Kameen discover an extraordinary artefact in the planet's wast