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Deena

@itsdeenasaur.bsky.social
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Egyptian comics artist and writer. Shubeik Lubeik in English (2023) and Arabic (2021). Sleepy and tired.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The last functional hospital in Gaza city has been bombed and patients are strewn on the streets.
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We are not even a week into the second Trump administration and the President of Colombia is telling Trump that he will never shake is hand because “I don’t shake hands with white slavers,” which, to be clear, is a bar
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The very idea of Palestinian freedom is so loathed by the US that two of the only states getting aid are the two states blockading Gaza, a strip mostly populated by children www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt
Internal memo to US state department staff explicitly makes exceptions for military assistance to Israel and Egypt
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I edited this comic for poet Jehad Abu Dayya and artist Esraa Elbanna, currently displaced in Deir alBalah. They wrote and drew it together from their tents. It is a very intentional work with many layers to it, I hope you read it (1/5)
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
sad to report that workshop signups have been way down since the start of the new year. please don't forget about the small, regular amounts of aid to mutual aid groups which need thousands a day to provide for their people! upcoming workshops here: www.workshops4gaza.com/workshops
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Workshops — Workshops 4 Gaza
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
i keep forgetting to check this platform im sorry. i’d like my 2025 resolution to be not to use social media at all. but even though i no longer suffer from the delusion that maybe if we all keep posting the right way we won’t have to keep watching arab kids die, i still feel a need to do it.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
They arrested him
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 16/12/2024
Israel has murdered Khaled Nabhan, a man whose story gained global attention last year when CNN shared his grief over the brutal killing of his grandchild, whom he described as "the soul of [his] soul."
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
sorry im late to tabling at MICE the assad regime fell last night and i got distracted
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
this is tomorrow as well 👍
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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Gaza now has the world’s highest rate of child amputees per capita.
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Victor Salama @vicosalama.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Shubeik Lubeik, la merveilleuse fantaisie urbaine de @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social , et que j'ai eu l'immense joie d'adapter en français, est dans la sélection de Noël de France Info.
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Du "frère volé" de Riad Sattouf au crapaud philosophe de Jérémie Moreau, 22 BD à glisser sous le sapin
Voici une sélection de vingt-deux bandes dessinées et romans graphiques, à déposer dans la hotte du père Noël.
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Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm still not seeing posts in Arabic in Blue Sky. When I posted in Arabic the formatting seemed awkward (couldn't do right to left script). This excludes a great many people. What's being done about it?
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The idea that people in need are at a deficit of credibility is part-and-parcel of the racism that fuels this genocide. It's not to say scams don't exist. But the entitlement to accuse others of things with 0 proof, that your "gut" supersedes their stories is something else entirely.
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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I don’t care that Biden just pardoned his kid. But I do care that he’s still facilitating genocide 14 months later.
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
if you live in or near boston!! i am doing so many things there this weekend! talk at harvard countway library with @noethematt.bsky.social on thursday at noon, BU keynote speech with @joelchristiangill.bsky.social friday at 6pm, and a panel at @massmice.bsky.social saturday at 1pm! please come by
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
i am a guest at @massmice.bsky.social this year which I have recently learned means I have a table there (69B!) it also means i will be tabling at an american comics event for the first time in my life and I have no idea what to display
SCREENSHOT OF LIST OF GUESTS AT MASSACHUSETTS INDEPENDENT COMICS EXPO (MICE 2024):
Cara Bean  (65A)
Johnny Christmas (69A)
Denjs Kitchen (70A)
Emma Hunsinger (66B)
Mad Rupert (68A)
Tillie Walden (66A)
Shaina Lu (65 B)
Deena Mohamed (69 B)
Keith Knight (70A)
Sig Burwash (Signing + Panel)

Screenshot of Deena Mohamed’s  page + schedule at Mice 2024:

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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Website: https://www.deenadraws.art/
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MICE KEYNOTE INTERVIEW WITH DEENA MOHAMED
FRI 6PM - 7PM, Room 410
Interviewer: Joel Christian Gill
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Start off the MICE weekend with a keynote interview with featured guest Deena Mohamed in conversation Joel Christian Gill, Visual Narrative Chair at Boston University's College of Fine Arts. Dive into the process and themes behinds the celebrated graphic novel Shubeik Lubeik and more from the Cairo comics scene. Presented by Boston University’s MFA in Visual Narrative, and the Tuesday Night Lecture Series, which brings artists and designers to Boston University to present on their work and practice.
RSVP HERE
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CITY LIVING, LIVING CITY: HOW SETTING SHAPES STORY - Panel
SAT 2PM - 3PM, Thurman Commons
Panelists: Deena Mohamed, Rocky Cotard, Karl Krumpholz,
Bob Bergeron & Katy Finch
Moderator: Kurt Ankeny

The setting of a comic is so profoundly essential to the story that it shapes the characters and the plot. When this setting is a city, its character can create a dynamic energy.
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Please support this vitally important institute. Needed today more than ever.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 27/11/2024
I am an obstetrician and gynecologist who has worked in Gaza throughout the Israeli genocide. I have seen the destruction of Gaza's medical sector firsthand. My patients' stories tell the story of the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/my-stories-a……
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My stories as an OB/GYN in Gaza reveal the truth of the Gaza genocide
I am an obstetrician and gynecologist who has worked in Gaza throughout the Israeli genocide. I have seen the destruction of Gaza’s medical sector firsthand. My patients’ stories tell the story of...
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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Gaza needs 600 aid trucks daily. Biden only required Israel to let in 350 per day. Israel allowed an average of just 56 aid trucks into Gaza per day during the 30 days afterward. Biden still refused to hold Israel accountable. @stephensemler.bsky.social: www.securityincontext.com/posts/israel...
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Israel’s US-backed starvation policy in Gaza: Assessing Biden Administration's Failed Humanitarian Ultimatum to Israel
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A privilege to host Alaa Abd el-Fattah's mother, Laila Soueif on day 59 of her hunger strike & sisters @monasosh.bsky.social & Sanaa at @caabu.bsky.social for after meeting David Lammy.   Our full love, support & solidarity, as Alaa remains unjustly imprisoned in Egypt @freealaa.bsky.social
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
i’ve said this before but last october news came out that around 15 family trees had been totally wiped out in gaza and i tried to draw a comic about what that means. before i could finish it the number passed 100 and i no longer knew how to depict that kind of loss. now it is in the thousands.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
There’s like 12 more IDF evacuation orders for Dahieh, Beirut tonight. I’ve lost count of how many there have been but it’s easily in the lower hundreds. An entire historical area of Beirut is being annihilated on a quasi-daily basis.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/11/2024
BREAKING: Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past 48 hours have killed 120 Palestinians and wounded 205, according to the enclave's Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/6yjo63
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Israel pounds Beirut, kills 120 Palestinians in Gaza in 48 hours
Lebanon confirms 11 deaths in Beirut’s Basta area as a series of Israeli strikes also hit its Choueifat, Hadath areas.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Going to be really hard to justify sending billions of dollars in military aid to one guy with ICC arrest warrants while we attempt to claim the moral high ground in helping to fight off the other guy with an ICC arrest warrant
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Micha Tobia @michatobia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"How can a woman, who has been forced from her home and lost everything, say no to a marriage proposal made at gunpoint?" An incredibly important and devastating piece by @timep.bsky.social nonresident fellow Mohaned Elnour on forced marriages in Sudan. timep.org/2024/11/21/f...
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Forced Marriage in Sudan: A Silent Crime Perpetrated in War and Peace - The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Sudanese law has failed to adequately protect women and girls from forced marriage during peacetime, contributing to its widespread acceptance during wartime.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I see the United States is once again taking a bold, firm stance against human rights and international law.
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
clip studio paint is the program i use on both ipad and desktop and it is also the only art software i consider a friend
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Khalil Sayegh @khalilsayegh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today, the ICC issued a warrant for the arrest of two Israeli leaders responsible for the war crimes in Gaza. The policies and military actions ordered by these criminals killed my father and little sister. (1/2)
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Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
beautiful day for the ICC to issue arrest warrants, and every day until the end of time will be a beautiful day to remember Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken should also be liable for aiding and abetting genocide
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Breaking: The ICC has officially issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes. It was a unanimous ruling.
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George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD @lenakt.bsky.social WON THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY IVE BEEN CRYING FOR 5 MINUTES STRAIGHT
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Abdelrahman ElGendy @elgendy95.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This memoir took my breath away. Javier’s words, colors, and inquiries sing to all the right notes, then some. I was in the trucks, on the shore, in the ocean, and tucked into Chino's jacket as the fish flew by. Thank God for the blessing of poets writing prose. #BookSky #Solito #Immigration
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We’re hosting a workshop with the incredible Steven Thrasher, author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS, on media literacy—an amazing opportunity to learn from a brilliant scholar! All proceeds go to the Sameer Project. Sign up at the link below ⬇️ December 13, 7pm EST ✨
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Jim Zogby @jjz1600.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m on the DNC for 32 yrs: 16 on the Executive Committee, 11 as chair of the resolutions committee, & on the Unity/Reform Committee. I’m pushing for budget transparency & accountability, & party democracy. But I guess all I’ll ever be is that “pro-Palestinian” guy. It’s bigotry
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Abdelrahman ElGendy @elgendy95.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“The lives of political prisoners of the Middle East are traded like currency in the Western political bazaar.” On the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, I wrote for The Markaz Review. themarkaz.org/liberation-c...
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Liberation Cosplay: on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Events like the Day of the Imprisoned Writer risk becoming mere spectacles until they challenge the status quo.
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