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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Worldwide, as we've been given an e-galley. Send me an email w/ your qualifications.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Mike Rhode</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:mrhode@gmail.com">mrhode@gmail.com</a></span></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></b></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><br></span></span></b></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">DEENA</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> </span></b></span><span style="margin:0px"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">MOHAMED</span></span></b></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> is
an Egyptian illustrator and writer. She first began making comics at
eighteen, when she created the viral webcomic Qahera, a satirical
superhero strip starring a visibly Muslim superheroine. Originally
published in Arabic by Dar el Mahrousa in Egypt, </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Shubeik</span></span></i></span><span style="margin:0px"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Lubeik</span></span></i></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> was
awarded Best Graphic Novel and the Grand Prize at the 2017 Cairo Comix Festival. She lives and works in Cairo.</span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">SHUBEIK</span></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">LUBEIK</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">(January
10, 2023)</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">A brilliantly original debut graphic novel that imagines an alternate Cairo where wishes really do come true. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Deena</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Mohamed</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> brings
to life a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs are heartbreaking, inspiring, and deeply resonant.</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Shubeik</span></span></i></span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Lubeik
(</span></span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">“your
wish is my command” in Arabic) is the story of three people who are
navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale. Mired in
bureaucracy and the familiar prejudices of our
world, the wishes are more likely to work as intended the more
expensive they are.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">Three wishes that
are sold at a little sidewalk kiosk in Cairo link Aziza, Nour, and
Shokry, changing their perspectives as well as their lives. Aziza
learned early that life can be hard, but when she loses
her husband and manages to procure a wish, she finds herself fighting
bureaucracy and inequality for the right to have—and make—that wish.
Nour is a privileged college student who secretly struggles with
depression and must decide whether or not to use their
wish to try to “fix” this depression, and then figure out how to do it.
And, finally, Shokry must grapple with his religious convictions as he
decides how to help a friend who doesn’t want to use their wish.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">Although their
stories are fantastical, each of these people grapples with the very
real challenge of trying to make their most deeply held desires come
true.</span></p>
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