DEENA MOHAMED is an Egyptian comics artist and writer. She first began making comics at eighteen when she created the viral webcomic Qahera, a satirical superhero strip starring a visibly Muslim superheroine. She then began working on Shubeik Lubeik, an original Arabic graphic novel trilogy published by Dar el-Mahrousa in Egypt. Shubeik Lubeik was awarded Best Graphic Novel and the Grand Prize of the Cairo Comix Festival. The Hugo, Eisner and Harvey-nominated English translation of Shubeik Lubeik was published by Pantheon Books in the US and received the Excellence in Graphic Literature Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. She lives, works and is usually asleep in Cairo, Egypt.
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