Egypt’s mobile platform for comic artists: Wamda’s Rachel Williamson profiled Koshk Comics, an Egyptian “mobile-first platform into which comic artists can upload their work, with the option to sell it.” Co-founder Amr Hussein says “our goal is to [give artists] a commercial alternative, to attract them to do more effort in that direction, to make it worth it, to make some kind of profession called a comic artist.” Williamson writes “Koshk has six books on the app and one of the most recent is Lamis. It’s a strip about a woman, Lamis, who is a powerful [redacted] dealer in Cairo. Although the first episode conveyed a noble side Lamis is a much darker, distinctly human character, more so than another Cairene superheroine Qahera, who battles misogyny in the Egyptian capital, or Joumana Medlej’s Lebanese Malaak: Angel of Peace.”