![]() ![]() Trawling the city's underbelly for clues, Fatma will have to fight off rampaging Ghuls, tangle with a saucy assassin, and contend with a passel of inscrutable clockwork creatures that may or may not be Angels. ![]() When she sets out to investigate the apparent suicide of a powerful Djinn, she's swept up in a whirlwind of a case that will test every ounce of her considerable cunning. Fatma el-Sha'arawi is a Special Investigator for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities - a taskforce that handles crime and law enforcement as it pertains to Egypt's otherworldly citizens. Nowadays, those beings live openly alongside the mortal denizens of the modern metropolis of Cairo. ![]() And then the wandering mystic al-Jahiz bore a hole through reality to the other-realm of Djinn and those apocryphal creatures poured into the world of mankind, irrevocably changing the tide of destiny as they involved themselves and their magics in politics, warfare, and civil society.Īll that was decades ago. There was once a time that mythical creatures were just that- mythical. Djèlí Clark in 2016, A Dead Djinn in Cairo takes place in an Alternate History Myth Punk version of 1912 Egypt where supernatural beings walk the streets and a sinister plot is afoot. Agent Fatma el-Sh'arawi, hot on the caseĪ short story written by P. ![]()
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