Doaa El-Adl is an Egyptian political cartoonist, currently working at the prominent newspaper Al Masry Al Youm. She has been a regular contributor to such renowned periodicals as Al Dostor newspaper, Rose Al Youssef Magazine and Sabah El Kheir Magazine. As a children’s illustrator, her work has been featured in Qatr El Nada, Alaa El Din and Bassem Magazine. Her work has also been featured in exhibitions in France, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Switzerland and has garnered several awards, including the 2009 Journalists’ Union award in Egypt, given to the year’s best cartoonist. In 2013, she won the Art of Political Satire award, Italy, the Saint Just le Martel prize, France, and the Resisting Violence Against Women award from the organization ACT. Doaa El-Adl was also the winner of the Cartooning-for-Peace award in 2014, the 2015 Mustafa & Ali Amin prize, Egypt, as well as the Mahmoud Kahil Editorial cartoonist award in 2016.
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Radical architect, professor, cartoonist and comic writer, no-director of the yearly international underground comics festival Crack! (http://crack.forteprenestino.net), held in the squatted fortress of CSOA Forteprenestino, now turning 16th editions. Produces underground zines and comic books (Fortepressa). In 1990, created the Graforibelli collective satyrical experience. The nineties are years of cutting edge situations: in the Sciatto produzie group produces installations, performances, murals and street art, and takes part and organizes happenings and festivals in the European underground scene. He draws and writes comics published both in the independent than in the mainstream, participating as well in the grassroot network about new media. In the 2K years focus on teaching architecture and new media languages in universities and specialized schools in Rome, working as well as architect. He has done graphic novels, animated shorts and games and has written essays on digital animation, comics language and underground scene. His writings are published now monthly on Linus magazine.

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Walid M.Taher, graduated from Helwan University in Egypt with a BSc in Fine Arts (Puppet Theatre), 1992. Since then, he worked as a Senior Art Director/ Illustrator at Dar El Shorouk Publishing, an Adjunct Professor of Illustration at The American University in Cairo (AUC) and was the Co-Founder and Art Director of Weladna. He is also a political cartoonist for AlShorouk News and El Dustour Weekly, as well as a Graphic designer and Puppet designer Illustrator for Sabah El Kheir Weekly. Walid continues to illustrate for Karma Media House and Hoopoe Books among others. His work includes the design of educational material for the World Health Organization and the Egyptian Ministry of Education, and the National Center for Children’s Culture among others. Walid Taher won several awards including the prestigious Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature in 2012, the Anna Lindt Foundation Award for “Dreams of Animals” in 2012 and the International Children’s Book Award at The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF) in 2014.

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George Khoury is a renowned Lebanese comics artist and critic. He has published several comic albums (graphic novels) and series in daily newspapers since the 1980s and received several awards. He authored several articles and essays on the history of comics in the Arab world, and continues to write critically on comics from the region. He has been head of the Animation Department at Future Television since its launch in 1993, and teaches at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

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