Autore
Elsakaan, Nesma

Titolo
’Ilḫa ’ūnā: Graphic Narratives and the Struggle for Gender Equality in Egypt: Doaa El-Adl as a Case Study
Periodico
In verbis
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 135 - Pagina finale: 152

This paper examines the role of graphic narratives in Egyptian women’s struggle for gender equality. Focusing on selected drawings by Doaa El- Adl, this paper analyzes their use in the Guardianship Is My Right campaign, launched by the Women and Memory Forum in 2021 and visually framed by El-Adl through the urgent call ’Ilḫa ’ūnā (“help”) to protest proposed amendments to Egypt’s personal status law. Through an episodic reading and a close analysis of the drawings’ linguistic, visual, and literary features, the study explores their thematic interconnections and argues that the fragmented structure of El-Adl’s graphic narratives functions as a distinctive form of visual storytelling. This structure not only reflects the legal and social challenges faced by Egyptian women but also allows for a multiplicity of interpretations grounded in their lived experiences.



SICI: 2279-8978(2025)1<135:&&GNAT>2.0.ZU;2-8
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