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الترشيحات
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النســــــــائية
35%
جـائزة محمـود كحيـل 1
مارس 2016
الكاريكاتير السياسي
Amjad Rasmi | Jordan
Member of the Visual Artists Association and a founding member of the Cartoonists Association in Jordan. Rasmi won the Arab Journalism Award and was a returning member of its jury thereafter. He is presiding the jury in the Naji Ali International Award.Read more
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الروايات التصويرية
Ahmad Nady | Egypt
Studied Oil Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University. Nady started his career as the designer of Sesame World’s characters in its first season, as well as the creative writer and storyboard illustrator of the Cartoons intervals between episodes. He participated in the production of many animations in studios and production companies, and drew comic strips and illustrations for several comic newspapers.Read more
الشرائط المصورة
Mohammad ElMu’ti | Jordan
After having studied graphic design for two years, I spent five years working in animation as a cartoonist, character designer, and storyboard artist. One day, I took an animation course in Los Angeles, came back to Amman and decided to work in comics and storytelling.Read more
الرسوم التصويرية والتعبيرية
Bahij Jaroudi | Lebanon
Studied graphic design at the Lebanese American University. In 2009, Jaroudi completed MA in animation at Kingston University. He works at the animation department of Future Television, while doing freelance illustration and children’s books. In 2012, he received the “Kitabi” prize for Arab children’s literature. He maintains a zeal for cartooning and animation.Read more
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رسوم كتب الأطفال
Azza Hussein | Lebanon
Studied Fine Arts at the Lebanese University and the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, and Image Synthesis & Computer Animation at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Netherlands). She is a part-time Instructor in Digital Media, Drawing and Sketching at the School of Architecture & Design – Lebanese American University. Read more
Lujaina Assil
Mrs. Assil is a Syrian artist born in Damascus 1946, where she later received her BA in visual communication and Interior Design from Damascus University. Since 1969, she has worked in illustration and art direction in several children’s magazine and books in Syria and in the Arab world., among which is the art direction of Touta Touta Magazine and Ahmad (Lebanon) from 2002 to 2013. She is currently art director at the Arabic advertising institution in Syria. Mrs. Assil contributed to several animated commercials, and wrote numerous scripts and illustrations for animated children’s series on TV. She participated in specialized workshops on children’s art and is a member of several international, regional and local festivals in this field. A selection of her work is exhibited at the museums & in personal collections. Mrs Assil is the recipient of several awards, notably The Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations award at the (NOMA 2006, Japan) and the Arab Children’s Book Publishers’ Assembly award.Read more
TokTok Magazine
TokTok is the first quarterly Egyptian comics magazine for adults. It is a satire and humor oriented comic. For adults that aims to actively produce comic strips in a free spirit, drawn and edited by its own artists. The founders and contributors are artists Mohammad Shennawy, Makhlouf, Andeel, Hicham Rahma and Tawfiq. Tok Tok won the second prize for Best Fanzine in FIBDA festival in Algeria in 2011, and now reaching its 14th issue it represents more than 15 artists.Read more
1ST Mahmoud Kahil
Award 2016 Finalists
Abdallah Derkaoui | Tunisia
Doaa El Adl | Egypt
Ibrahim Rais | Morocco
Omar Ennaciri | Morocco
Mohamed Shennawy | Egypt
Salam Al Hassan | Syria
Hanan Kai | Lebanon
Joan Baz | Lebanon
Maya Fidawi |Lebanon
Lujaina Al Assil| Syria
Meet the Jury
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Patrick Chappatte
US
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Habib Haddad
Lebanon
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Magdy ElShafei
Egypt
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Imad Hajjaj
Jordan
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Jihad ElKhazen
UK/Lebanon
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Michele Standjofski
Lebanon
Editorial cartoonist for The International New York Times since 2001. From 1995, Chappatte has worked in graphic journalism. His cartoons have been featured in five books published by the International New York Times. In 2011, Chappatte won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Thomas Nast Award for best cartoons on international affairs. He was the first non-American to win this prize.
Renowned Lebanese cartoonist and illustrator, Habib Haddad participated in several national and international exhibitions and has many published works. For the past 3 decades, he has been the editorial cartoonist for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Hayat.
Magdy el Shafei is an Egyptian comics artist known for authoring the first Egyptian graphic novel “Metro” published in ’08. Mr. Shafei began his career as a cartoonist in ’01 and is considered one of the pioneers of the art of adult comics in Egypt.
Prominent writer and journalist, and the founding Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. He is now a columnist and editor emeritus for the Pan Arab daily Al-Hayat in which he writes a biweekly Ayoon wa Azan column. Mr. El Khazen works and lives in London.
Comics artist and illustrator from Beirut. Standjofski has been teaching comics and illustration at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts since 1992, conducting several workshops and seminars on illustrations and comics, and exhibiting internationally.