El Khaldyia a Graphic Novel By Milan Hulsing

The story of the graphic novel. focuses on civil servant Salem, who invents the city of Khaldiya so that he can collect the salaries of an equally imaginary local police force. He produces fake documents and builds the city out of clay in his own home, as a realistic depiction of his own imaginings. He maximizes expense claims by inventing rebels that need to be kept under control by the police - by violent means, of course. This twist lends the story a political charge and enables the storytellers, to criticize police corruption. When the police are not bullying citizens, they are in the brothel. The graphic novel published at the beginning of the Arab Spring, a few days before the uprising in Tahrir Square began. One of its themes is police corruption and brutality in Egypt.