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“The festival is a showcase for Sandstorm, a new Emirati comics imprint developed through investment from the UAE government as a means of promoting new talent and stories from the Gulf and the Arabic-speaking world, featuring content, aesthetics and themes that resonate with the 450 million inhabitants of the Middle East and North Africa.”