Facts &
Figures
Arab
Countries
11
Number of
Submitions
200
Female
Participation
58%
2ND Mahmoud Kahil
Award Winners
March 2017
Editorial Cartoons
Doaa AlAdl | Egypt
Doaa El Adl, born in Dumiat, is an Egyptian caricaturist. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cinema and Theatre Interior department. Doaa worked as a political caricaturist at Al Doctor newspaper, Rose Al Youssef Magazine and Sabah El Kheir Magazine. She currently works at Al Masry Al Youm. In the field of children illustrations, she contributed to Qatr El Nada, Alaa-ElDin and Bassem Magazine. Read more
www.instagram.com/doaa.eladl.cartoon
Graphic Novels
Fouad Mezher | Lebanon
Based in Lebanon, Fouad Mezher works as an illustrator on projects ranging from children’s books to animations, but his primary focus is on comics. His work in comics started with Samandal in which he wrote and illustrated the series The Educator as well as other short comics. His other work in comics includes illustrating The Fifth Column: Homecoming, written by Fadi Baki, in Zamakan, as well as writing and illustrating the silent comic Fragile for Risha Project. Read more
Comics
Othman Selmi | Tunisia
Otham Selmi was born in 1977 in Tunisia. After receiving his diploma in graphic arts, he devised his time to comics at a cartoon studio. He is currently Director of Creativity in a communications agency. He wrote many books for young Tunisians, and drew in many magazines abroad.Read more
Graphic Illustration
Muhammad Mustafa | Egypt
Muhammad Mustafa is a Cairo-based visual artist. He studied Fine Arts in Cairo, majoring in Painting, graduating in 2007. He started his work in the advertising field as an illustrator, and throughout his work years joined different multinational agencies in Egypt, Bahrain and Dubai. In 2012, he decided to pursue his path as a freelance illustrator to further explore different kinds of art projects alongside his commercial work. Read more
Chilldren’s Book Illustration
Maya Fidawi | Lebanon
I was pretty much known to be lazy student throughout my school years, but I was also known as “that girl who knows how to draw” ..so survived by that, waiting for the art class impatiently; the only subject that woke me up from the coma I had during all those years. After miraculously graduating, it didn’t really take me much time to decide that my passion was art, so I enrolled at the Lebanese University, faculty of Art, and majored in painting and sculpting, graduating in 2000, and freelancing since my 1st year of university.Read more
Habib Haddad
Habib Haddad was born in Tripoli, Lebanon in 1945. With a passion for drawing since childhood, he taught himself bypassing any formal education in art, and continues to live from his art. During the 70’s he worked for Al Nida’ newspaper and Al Akhbar magazine in Beirut. At the beginning of 1977 Haddad immigrated to France, where he served as a caricaturist for Al Mustakbal magazine Paris, and later during the 80’s at Al Anba Kuwaiti newspaper, and the Parisian “Editor” Newspaper. He finally moved to Al Hayat Newspaper for which he worked for twenty five years, only recently retiring.Read more
Cairo Comix Festival
CairoComix Festival deals in particular with the development of the independent movement of comics in Egypt at a large scale in the Middle East and North Africa, where comics represent a popular form and art equivalent to other media means such as street art, animation, cinema, video art and graphic design; and where artists in the field usually practice one or more of these arts. CairoComix is regarded as a celebration of art gathering readers, painters and writers of this art, whether at the local or international level in one place, which isn’t usually seen but in the presentation of different awards such as Best Arab Comic Award. The first edition of the festival took place in September 2015, and included 20 guests coming from Arab and other countries.Read more
4th Mahmoud Kahil
Award 2019 Finalists
Othman Selmi | Tunisia
Ahmed Tawfiq | Egypt
Seifeddine Nechi | Tunisia
Omar AlNasiri | Morocco
Fouad Mezher | Lebanon
Mohammad Koraytem | Lebanon
Diala Brisli | Syria
Hazem Kamal | Egypt
Sahar Abdallah | Egypt
Walid Taher | Egypt
Meet the Jury
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Andrew Warner
USA
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Armand Homsy
Lebanon
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Bahia Shehab
Lebanon
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Geroge Khoury
Lebanon
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Mohammad Shennawy
Egypt
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Jean-Pierre Mercier
France
Andy Warner is the New York Times Best selling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects. His comics have been published by Slate, American Public Media, The Center for Constitutional Rights, UNHCR, UNRWA, and Buzzfeed. He is a contribution editor at The Nib and teaches cartooning at Stanford University.
Renowned Lebanese editorial cartoonist in An Nahar daily newspaper for the past 2 decades. Armand joined the newspaper as an Editorial cartoonist after winning a cartoon contest held by the newspaper in 1994. His cartoons have been showcased in many international venues. Armand holds a degree in Interior Design and is a university teacher, sharing his passion for drawing and design with tomorrow’s talents.
www.kerbaj.com
Bahia Shehab is an artist, designer and art historian. She is associate professor of design and founder of the graphic design program at the American University in Cairo. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has received a number of international recognitions and awards.
George Khoury (JAD), is head of the Animation Department at Future Television since its launch in 1993. He is author of several articles and essays on Comics and Animation, along a career in Animation and Comics since the early 80s. His artworks and films are featured in many local and international festivals and galleries, receiving numerous awards. He is founder of JADWORKSHOP comic collective, and co-founder of the “Lebanese Syndicate of Professional Graphic Designers, Illustrators and Animators”.
https://www.joanbaz.com/
Graphic comics designer and artist born in Cairo in 1978. He has been publishing his cartoons and designs in different publications since 2000. He is a founding member of “TokTok” magazine issued in Cairo in 2011. He is also founder of “9th art” institution dealing with activities and publications of Arab comics and one of the founders of CairoComix in Cairo.