Zainab Fasiki

Zainab Fasiki (Arabic: زينب فاسيكي; born July 21, 1994) is a Moroccan graphic artist, activist for women's rights and mechanical engineer by training.

[1][2] She became internationally known after 2019, following her graphic novel Hshouma, corps et sexualité au Maroc which was translated from French into Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, Galician and Italian.

Many of Fasiki's illustrations are self-portraits, often in the nude, inspired by women in the traditional Moroccan hammam or painted as comic characters like Wonder Woman.

In November 2018, her work was exhibited at Le Cube art gallery in Rabat,[14] and in October 2019, she was named a TIME magazine "Next Generation Leader" for her comic book Hshouma.

[15] Fasiki has named Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi and French-Iranian graphic artist Marjane Satrapi as influences, and wants to counter Western narratives about women in the Middle East and North Africa as "either hypersexual or repressed".