By Hussein Adil

Hussein Adil was born in Iraq in 1994. He received a degree from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 2015. After interning with several organizations, including the Iraqi Independent Film Center and the Sada Institute for Modern Arts, he founded his own project – the Mesaha Comics Collective in 2015 – which publishes Mesaha, a comics magazine. Adil has taken part in a number of festivals, including Cairocomix in Egypt (2015) and Fumetto in Switzerland (2017). His work has been showcased at the New Generation: Arab Comics Today exhibition as part of the Angouleme Festival in France (2017), and he has also contributed work to the American comics magazine, The Nib. In 2020, he was the recipient of the Mahmoud Kahil Award in the comics category.