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Tintin is the hero of twenty-four adventure stories by Georges Remi, who used the pseudonym Hergé ("RG" in French, his initials reversed.) Tintin first appeared in 1929 in a children's supplement of the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.

In the 1950 story "Au pays de l'or noir" (Land of Black Gold) a World War is imminent. Tintin becomes a radio officer on the "Speedol Star" and heads off for Khemikhal, the chief port in Khemed.

Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab is the Emir of the Khemed. Tintin saves his son Abdallah, a very badly behaved child, from Dr. Muller's and Bab El Ehr, fiends of the emirate. In a later story Bab El Ehr manages to take power ("Coke en Stock" - The Red Sea Sharks), but soon Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab takes back his throne. Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab has no mercy for his enemies, but is very tender in front of his son (except when he's the victim of Abdallah's jokes...)

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