Illustrator & designer based in Cairo.
Deena Mohamed is an Egyptian illustrator and designer. She first started making comics at eighteen, with the webcomic Qahera about a visibly muslim Egyptian superhero that addresses social issues such as Islamophobia and misogyny. Her graphic novel trilogy, Shubeik Lubeik, is an urban fantasy about wishes. It is published in Arabic in Egypt by Dar El Mahrousa and was awarded Best Graphic Novel and the Grand Prize of the Cairo Comix Festival (2017.) The entire trilogy is available in Arabic as of June 2021. The English translation for all three parts of Shubeik Lubeik has been acquired by Pantheon Books for North America and Granta for the UK, for publication in spring 2022.
She participated in the exhibition on Contemporary Arab Comics at the Museum of Comics (musée de la bande dessinée) in Angoulême, L'Escale (Angoulême, 2017), Superheroes Wanted (Berlin, 2018) and Arts, Activism and Research (York, 2018) and A Sea of Illustrators (Valencia, 2019).
She does freelance illustrations for local and international clients such as Viacom, Google, UN Women, Harrassmap and Mada Masr.
Deena works and resides in Cairo.