Cabaret Crusades Drawings is an extraordinary limitededition popup book by Egyptian artist Wael Shawky born 1971. The popups are based on seven drawings by Shawky that in turn are inspired by the Arabian calligraphers colorists and storytellers working just before the First Crusade. Thus a twoheaded animal bears castles upon its back a gigantic camel straddles mountains. Meticulously precise yet dreamlike Shawkys drawings swarm with waxen incident and narrative detail displaying worlds equal