Deena

The last functional hospital in Gaza city has been bombed and patients are strewn on the streets.

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

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

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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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)

Workshops — Workshops 4 Gaza

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

happy new year. 2024 was a wonderful year for me professionally, and an awful year spiritually. i am not the same person i was before i spent this year watching how a genocide is condoned and carried out. i have a great deal of clarity and anger. i will be carrying it with me into the new year

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.

They arrested him

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."

sorry im late to tabling at MICE the assad regime fell last night and i got distracted

this is tomorrow as well 👍

Gaza now has the world’s highest rate of child amputees per capita.

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.

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.

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?

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.

I don’t care that Biden just pardoned his kid. But I do care that he’s still facilitating genocide 14 months later.

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

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.

good to know!

glad my books were there even without me 😭

i’ve only ever tabled at cairocomix where i print on mugs and stickers and postcards locally! but i’m not quite sure what I can (realistically) bring to MICE that visitors might enjoy. i’ll probably just do custom drawings for the duration

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. ​ Website: https://www.deenadraws.art/ schedule MICE KEYNOTE INTERVIEW WITH DEENA MOHAMED FRI 6PM - 7PM, Room 410 Interviewer: Joel Christian Gill ​ 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 ​​ --- ​ 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.

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