The series, which began as a joke amongst friends but soon became a viral phenomenon, deals with issues such as sexual harassment, misogyny, Islamophobia, and Islamist cultural attitudes, all often within the context of the 2012–13 Egyptian protests.

[1] "Groped by the comic strip's villains, Layla's hopes of police assistance are dashed when an officer castigates her for wearing inappropriate clothing -- trousers and a sweater.

Back on the street, she's confronted by another gang of tormentors and is saved only when Qahera appears, beating them with a stick and then stringing them by the scruff of their necks from the police station railings."

"Qahera", the feminine version of "qaher", means conqueror, vanquisher, or triumphant; القاهرة (al-Qāhirah or al-Qahera) is the Arabic for the city Cairo itself, where the story takes place.

[3] In the commentary for the first Qahera comic, Mohamed wrote that "an evening of reading the most awful misogynistic articles on dumb Islamic websites has led [her] to this."