Doaa El -Adl

By LatAm ARTE

He was born on February 6, 1979 in Damietta. He currently lives and works in Cairo. She is an Egyptian caricaturist who currently works for the newspaper “Al-Masry Al-Youm”, known for its satirical caricatures of her with strong political, social or religious themes. She has been cited as Egypt's most famous cartoonist. Her work in “Al-Masry Al-Youm” has received considerable attention and has generated controversy. El-Adl studied Fine Arts at the University of Alexandria graduating in 2000 and in 2007 she began publishing caricatures of herself. She has worked as a cartoonist for “Al-Dustour”, “Rose al-Yusuf” and “Sabah El Kheir”, and has illustrated for “Qatr El Nada”, “Alaa-El Din” and “Bassem”. In 2009, she became the first woman to win the Caricature Journalism Award. In 2014, El Adl was honored by the Swiss foundation “Cartooning for Peace”. The award was presented by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who said that the award "recognizes those who commit their voices and artistic talents to the cause of peace and tolerance and who use a universal language of images to inform, educate and celebrate our common humanity". In 2009 she won the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate Journalistic Distinction Award for Caricature and in 2013 at the 41st Forte dei Marmi Political Satire Award she won in the International Satirical Cartoons category.